by Dan Mitchell | Mar 2, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Uncategorized, Welfare and Entitlements
In the grand scheme of things, the Export-Import Bank isn’t the worst government program or the one that most needs to be abolished. Entitlement programs are a far bigger threat to America’s long-run fiscal stability the Ex-Im Bank, with Medicaid serving as a...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 20, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Energy
Remember Solyndra, the festering symbol of green-energy corruption that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money being flushed down the toilet? And that was just one example. Based on the ratio of energy produced compared to insider enrichment,...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
When I write about the “inbred corruption of Washington” or “Washington’s culture of corruption,” I’m not merely taking pot-shots at the political elite. I’m trying to make a very serious point about the way in which big government enables immoral behavior by both...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Waste
I’ve periodically cited the great 19th-century French economist, Frederic Bastiat, for his very wise words about the importance of looking at both the seen and the unseen when analyzing public policy. Those that fail to consider secondary or indirect effects of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Crime, Society
According to Gallup, Americans now identify “government” as the most important problem facing the United States. That doesn’t surprise. Gallup also found last year that big government is considered a far greater danger to the nation that big business or big labor....
