by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
While I’m obviously not a fan of big government, I have mixed feelings about why the public sector is so blindly wasteful. Is it because politicians and bureaucrats are well-intentioned morons who accidentally do damage (as illustrated by this cartoon), or is it that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I write about insanely stupid government policies. But I know I get more motivated to fight big government. How can anyone want to give more money and power to politicians, for instance, after reading these comparisons of dumb...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 7, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, States
When I read the story from England about needing photo ID to buy teaspoons, I thought British bureaucrats built an insurmountable lead in the U.S. vs. U.K. contest for stupidest government action. But I should have had more faith in the hare-brained politicians of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
In June of last year, I posted several examples of idiotic government policy from both the United States and United Kingdom and asked which nation had the dumbest bureaucrats and politicians. Since then, we have found new examples of brain-dead government and...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste, Welfare and Entitlements
I’ve commented many times about wasteful government spending, including Social Security bureaucrats spending $700 thousand to party at a luxury resort, HUD bureaucrats giving huge subsidies for welfare recipients to live in upscale neighborhoods, rampant fraud in the...
