by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Every so often, I share an image that is unambiguously depressing. Usually because it suggests that freedom is slowly eroding. A chart showing that corporations are using cronyism to pad their bottom line. A table on the rapid rise of dependency in the United States....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
When I write about poorly designed entitlement programs, I will warn about America’s Greek future. Simply stated, we will suffer the same chaos and disarray now plaguing Greece if we don’t engage in serious reform. Ideally sooner rather than later. But when I write...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
As Ronald Reagan pointed out many years ago, Washington is a company town. But rather than being home to a firm or industry that earns money by providing value to willing consumers, the “company” is a federal government that uses a coercive tax system to provide...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Having lived in the Washington area for more than three decades, I have many friends who work for the federal government. Most of them will privately admit that they are very lucky since federal salaries and benefits are considerably higher than what they could earn...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
More than two years ago, I shared a couple of humorous images showing the languorous lifestyle of lazy bureaucrats. While those images were amusing, they didn’t really capture the true nature of bureaucracy. For a more accurate look at life inside Leviathan, here’s a...
