by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
There’s a Terror Wing in the Moocher Hall of Fame, so I guess it stands to reason that I should create a French Wing of the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame. After all, few nations can compete with France in the contest to over-tax and over-spend. And a lot of that spending...
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 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 | Jan 27, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending
As a taxpayer, I don’t like the fact that government employees get paid more than folks in the private sector. But the big difference between bureaucrats and regular workers isn’t so much the pay, it’s the fringe benefits. And perhaps the biggest difference of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
I’m impressed, in a dark and gloomy way. I thought the Italian healthcare official who showed up for work only 15 days in a nine-year period set the record for bureaucratic loafing. Based on longevity of laxity, he definitely out-did the San Francisco paper pusher who...
