by Dan Mitchell | Feb 18, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
Time for a confession. I routinely mock bureaucrats, but I don’t really think they are any worse than other people. Indeed, I have plenty of friends and acquaintances who work for various levels of government and they are fundamentally decent people. The real problem...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2017 | Blogs, States
Perhaps because there’s no hope for genuine Obamacare repeal and limited hope for sweeping tax reform, I’m having to look outside of Washington for good news. I wrote the other day about the very successful tax reforms in North Carolina. So now let’s travel to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, States
I don’t know if Dr. Seuss would appreciate my title, which borrows from his children’s classic. But given how I enjoy comparative rankings, I couldn’t help myself after perusing a new study from WalletHub that ranks states on their independence (or lack thereof)....
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
While most of my disdain is reserved for the federal government in Washington, I periodically share horror stories about foreign governments and state governments. And today we’re going to add to our collection of bone-headed policies by local governments. In some...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I wrote just yesterday that it’s tough to be a libertarian because “public choice” means never-ending pressure for bigger government. But the good part of working in public policy as a libertarian is that I never lack for topics. Simply stated, governments do so many...
