by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Today’s column is about shutting down the Department of Education. But I’m not going to explain why that should happen since I have already done that (once in 2015 and twice (here and here) in 2022). Instead I’m going to explain how it should...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
I’ve given “Bureaucrat of the Year” awards on several occasions. And I even have a “Bureaucrat Hall of Fame” for government employees who go above and beyond normal standards of sloth and avarice. But what happens when every single employee in a government...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
It’s not quite the “Chart of the Century,” which captures the perverse impact of government intervention, but Andrew Coulson’s chart on government schools is one of the most powerful visuals I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, he passed away about 10...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
My everything-you-need-to-know columns don’t actually reveal everything you need to know about an issue. But they always capture some essential truth about the inherent inefficiency and/or stupidity and/or malignancy of government. That’s true for state...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 1, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
When people (correctly) complain about Washington’s inefficiency and incompetence, I tell them that one of the problems is that the federal government is simply too big. Indeed, this is the core message of my 7th Theorem of Government. Simply...
