by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Government spending, almost by definition, is wasteful. But it’s worth distinguishing between two types of waste. Money that is spent properly but inefficiently.Money that is diverted by crooks and scammers. Today, we’re going to focus on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
I’m not a fan of the government-distorted health system in the United States. Various laws and programs from Washington have created a massive problem with third-party payer, which makes America’s system very expensive and inefficient....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
I periodically look at issues (social security, education, infrastructure, TSA, etc) to compare the private sector and the public sector. This new video from John Stossel gives us another example. The video reminds us that incentives matter....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
If we want more prosperity, what’s the ideal size of government? Anarcho-capitalists would say it shouldn’t exist at all, while some hard-core leftists want something like North Korea, where the state is everything. The rest of us want something between...
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...
