by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Let’s start today’s column with this reminder from John Stossel that federal involvement in education has produced bad outcomes and that the Department of Education should be abolished. The good news is that President Trump does not like that bureaucracy. He’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
I wrote two days ago to explain that America’s fiendishly complex tax system means we not only have to give lots of our money to the IRS, but we also have to endure aggravation, uncertainty, and expense as part of the process. Two weeks ago, I wrote...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
While Trump’s protectionism means a very misguided tax increase on American consumers and businesses, some of his other fiscal policies are praiseworthy. The spending reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill are small, but laudable. The changes to...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Today’s column is about shutting down the Department of Education. But I’m not going to explain why that should happen since I have already done that (once in 2015 and twice (here and here) in 2022). Instead I’m going to explain how it should...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I’ve given “Bureaucrat of the Year” awards on several occasions. And I even have a “Bureaucrat Hall of Fame” for government employees who go above and beyond normal standards of sloth and avarice. But what happens when every single employee in a government...
