by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Economics, Government Spending
Last year, I shared some remarkable research from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development about the negative relationship between government spending and economic performance. The economists at the Paris-based bureaucracy looked at data from its...
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 | Nov 25, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Regulations
I routinely grouse about the heavy economic cost of red tape. I’ve also highlighted agencies (such as the EEOC) that seem especially prone to senseless regulations. And I’ve explained why private regulation actually is a very effective way of promoting health and...
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...
