by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
After dozens of posts about overpaid government employees, I’m sick of writing about the topic. But what’s happening in Wisconsin is critically important in the fight for long-run fiscal sanity, so I’m reluctantly wading back into this fight. Simply stated,...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has put together a very depressing column for National Review. To put it bluntly, he exposes the true size of the federal workforce, which has 5.5 hidden employees for every official bureaucrat. Officially, as of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
This blog repeatedly has chronicled the huge discrepancy between the gold-plated compensation for government employees and the meager salaries and benefits of people in the productive sector of the economy, including a video conclusively demonstrating that bureaucrats...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Maybe elections have consequences after all. Bolstered by the populist uprising against bloated and wasteful government, politicians in Washington actually defended the interests of taxpayers yesterday. Not just once, but twice. Our first bit of holiday cheer comes...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 28, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
I hate writing about the TSA and airport security, especially since I fly frequently and despise the pointless “security theater” of the whole process. I keep doing posts about the issue, though, because it seems a day doesn’t go by without some new revelation about...
