by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
At the risk of oversimplifying, there are two types of statists. The first type is generally insincere and simply views bigger government and increased dependency as a strategy to obtain and preserve political power. Most inside-the-beltway leftists in Washington are...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending
I’m not a huge fan of government bureaucrats. But not because they’re bad people. Yes, there are repugnant hacks in the civil service like Lois Lerner, but most bureaucrats I’ve met are good people. My objection is that they work for departments that shouldn’t exist...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I never watched That ’70s Show, but according to Wikipedia, the comedy program “addressed social issues of the 1970s.” Assuming that’s true, they need a sequel that addresses economic issues of the 1970s. And the star of the program could be the Congressional Budget...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Let’s celebrate some good news. When politicians can be convinced (or pressured) to exercise even a modest bit of spending restraint, it’s remarkably simple to get positive results. Here’s some of what I wrote earlier this year. …one of the few recent victories for...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 6, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I have a very mixed view of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which is an organization representing self-styled deficit hawks in Washington. They do careful work and I always feel confident about citing their numbers. Yet I frequently get frustrated...
