by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Taxpayers all across America send lots of money to Washington, DC, in part because we’re supposed to believe that redistribution is a legitimate and desirable function of the federal government. But this is a very perverse form of redistribution. All that money going...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 3, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations, States
Back in 2010, I shared parts of a Dave Barry column that mocked the government for bizarre examples of stupid law enforcement. Barry was specifically making fun of OSHA bureaucrats for fining a company for the horrible transgression of saving a worker when a trench...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
As an economist with a boring personality (sorry to be redundant), I sometimes focus on numbers. And when contemplating the cost of regulation and red tape, there are some numbers that should frighten all of us. Americans spend 8.8 billion hours every year filling out...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Regulations
I’ve written before about the heavy costs of regulation, including these rather sobering statistics. Or, to be more accurate, here are some staggering numbers. Americans spend 8.8 billion hours every year filling out government forms. The economy-wide cost of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2012 | Blogs, Economics
There have been lots of studies showing that there’s no benefit to job training programs. People who sign up with these government schemes are not more likely to either get jobs or to earn more money. Heck, even the New York Times was forced to acknowledge that these...
