by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending, Government Waste, States
My main objection to government employees is that they work for bureaucracies that should not exist (especially the ones in Washington). That being said, I also don’t like how bureaucrats are overpaid compared to workers in the productive sector of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I’ve posted several videos about the Keystone Cops of airport security (see here, here, here, here, and here) and here’s another one to enjoy. Why am I motivated to mock the Transportation Security Administration today? For the simple reason that I went to...
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...
