by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Regulations
Every so often, I highlight tweets that deserve attention because they say something important, usually in a clever and succinct fashion. Best-ever tweet about inequality. Best tweet about capitalism vs socialism. The most depressing tweet. Trump’s worst-ever tweet....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
The most-common complaint about bureaucrats is that they’re lazy. Though it’s probably more accurate to say that bureaucracies have very little incentive to care about citizens. After all, the rest of us are captive customers, whether we’re dealing with the federal...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
For those still fixated on last week’s election, my analysis can be found here, here, here, here, and here. I’m now returning to my normal pattern of pontificating on public policy. Today we’re going to look at which nations that make it more lucrative to be a...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I have a “Bureaucrat Hall of Fame” to acknowledge individuals who go above and beyond the call of duty. As measured by sloth and waste, of course. But maybe I also need a “Bureaucracy Hall of Fame” for examples that capture the self-serving nature of departments,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Way back in early 2017, I warned in an interview that Trump would be a big spender (sadly, I was right). But I wasn’t being reflexively anti-Trump. Here’s a clip from that same program where I speculated that Trump might have the political skill to win support from...
