by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
When I started writing about public policy, I never realized that …um…human waste would be a frequent topic. *But we examined (not too closely!) the story of a Postal Service employee who defecated in someone’s yard and got to keep his job. *We wondered why the Greek...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Since I’ve already created a Moocher Hall of Fame to acknowledge the strangest and most reprehensible examples of government dependency, it’s occurred to me that there also should be a Bureaucrat Hall of Fame to highlight the government employees that have figured out...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 23, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending
I’ve complained many times about government intervention in the financial sector. The financial and housing crisis, for instance, was largely a consequence of the Federal Reserve’s easy-money policy, combined with the system of corrupt subsidies put in place by...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
The headline of this post might not be completely honest. Indeed, if you asked me to grade the accuracy of my title, I’ll admit right away that it falls into the “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan” category of mendacity. But I’m only prevaricating to set...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
There’s an old joke that a quandary exists when your mother-in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche. Are you more happy about losing her or more unhappy about losing your sports car? I’m not clever enough to come up with humorous quandaries, but I have shared...
