by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Check out some of the ridiculous details about the woman who has earned the title of California’s Golden Bureaucrat. Alameda County supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business — rewarding County Administrator Susan...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
When I first read this story in the Washington Post about supposedly under-appreciated federal bureaucrats, I was tempted to focus on the sentence referring to “the sledgehammer of budget cuts scheduled to hit today.” Is the Washington Post so biased and/or clueless...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Texas is in much better shape than California. Taxes are lower, in part because Texas has no state income tax. No wonder the Lone Star State is growing faster and creating more jobs. And the gap will soon get even wider since California voters recently decided to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Regulations
In large part because of an excessive burden of government, the American economy is suffering European-style stagnation, with even the Washington Post now confessing that growth far below the long-run trend. This helps explain why job creation has been so dismal in...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs
The Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards put together a remarkable (and depressing) chart showing that federal bureaucrats get almost twice the level of compensation as workers in the productive sector of the economy. Defenders of the bureaucracy (including a federal...
