by Dan Mitchell | Mar 2, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, States
America’s big national challenge with retirement income is a deeply indebted Social Security system. There’s also a significant problem at the state level, where many governors and state legislators have made extravagant promises of lavish retirement...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
My “everything you need to know” columns have a common theme of highlighting stark examples to make broader points. China’s economic policies are misguided The USA is out-performing Europe People respond to tax incentives California has remarkably bad governance...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 1, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
In 2014, I wrote about the Italian bureaucrat who worked only 15 days over a nine-year period. Earlier this year, I wrote about the more industrious (relatively speaking, of course) Italian bureaucrat who worked four years over a 24-year period....
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 1, 2023 | Blogs, States, Uncategorized
Whether at the federal level, state level, or local level, my biggest problem with bureaucrats is that many of them work for agencies and departments that should not exist. My second biggest problem is that they are overpaid compared to workers in the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2023 | Blogs
I created the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame to give recognition to government employees who confirm our worst suspicions about being lazy and overpaid. Or worse. Getting selected is not easy. For instance, the bureaucrats from the New Orleans...
