by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Yesterday I shared some very good news about Brazil adopting a spending cap. Today, I also want to share some good news, though it’s not nearly as momentous. Indeed, it’s not even good news. Instead, it’s just that some bad news isn’t as bad as it used to be. I’m...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 10, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I’m not a fan of federal bureaucracies and I don’t like the undeserved wealth of the Washington, DC metro region. So I’m very open to ideas that would address these problems. Paul Kupiec of the American Enterprise Institute suggests, in a thought-provoking column in...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
My main problem with bureaucrats is that there are too many of them (because government is too big) and that they are paid too much (almost twice the level of compensation as workers in the private sector). But even if the government was the proper size (America’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 12, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
As a public finance economist, I normally focus on big-picture issues such as the economically debilitating effect of excessive government spending and punitive taxation. But as a human being, what irks me most about big government is the way that insiders use the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Economics, Government Spending
I’ve written (some would say excessively) about the fact that America has too many bureaucrats and that they’re paid too much. That’s true in Washington. That’s true at the state level. And it’s true for local governments. But since I’m a big believer in beating a...
