by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Eli Lehrer of the Heartland Institute has an article in the Weekly Standard claiming that underfunded pension plans are not the problem with state budgets. This paragraph is a good summary of his article. In the end, many states facing very large current budget...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
A buddy from Monaco was at a different conference in the same hotel in Switzerland, and he sent me this great humor from David Letterman. Here are the top 10 ways to tell if you are a bureaucrat. 10.) You take a week off to protest in Wisconsin and your office runs...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 7, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Kudos to Governor Walker of Wisconsin. Republicans rarely have the intelligence or the fortitude to win battles that reduce the burden of government, but it appears that he is on the verge of prevailing in his effort to limit special privileges for government workers....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
My New Year’s Resolution was to stop making fun of the Transportation Security Administration. Not because I changed my mind about the bureaucracy and its level of (in)competence, but rather because I felt as if I was taking candy from a baby. Kicking the TSA is just...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The showdown in Wisconsin has generated competing claims about whether state and local government bureaucrats are paid too much or paid too little compared to their private sector counterparts. The data on total compensation clearly show a big advantage for state and...
