by Dan Mitchell | Apr 30, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Economists generally like competition because it promotes economic efficiency, more prosperity, lower prices, and higher wages. But some types of competition can be misguided. For instance, Americans used to dominate membership in the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame. Now,...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
Nothing can compare with the horrible outrage of bureaucrats awarding themselves bonuses after putting veterans on secret waiting lists and denying them care, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about the latest example of overspending and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Welfare and Entitlements
As shown by this graphic, why are so many people in Maine taking advantage of the food stamp program? As shown by this map, why does Oregon have such a high level of food stamp dependency? These are just rhetorical questions since I don’t have the answers. But if we...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 7, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I’ve written (some would say ad nauseam) about disproportionately generous pay and benefits for government bureaucrats. Particularly for the gilded class in Washington. I think the evidence for excessive bureaucratic compensation is ironclad, particularly if you look...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
The Internet has made all of our lives better, in part because there’s been an accidental policy of benign neglect from Washington. But that’s about to change. Even though our economy already is burdened by record amounts of regulation and red tape, the FCC is pushing...
