by Dan Mitchell | May 29, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
Everyone likes the idea of “state capacity,” at least when it means competent, honest government rather than dysfunctional, corrupt government. But the consensus disappears when some folks argue that you achieve this goal by making government bigger. It’s...
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...
