by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2018 | Blogs
While much of my analysis focuses on the mess created by Washington, I periodically show my ecumenical nature by sharing “Great Moments in State Government” and “Great Moments in Local Government.” I even occasionally share “Great Moments in Foreign Government.”...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 18, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
Time for a confession. I routinely mock bureaucrats, but I don’t really think they are any worse than other people. Indeed, I have plenty of friends and acquaintances who work for various levels of government and they are fundamentally decent people. The real problem...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
One of the great insights of “public choice” is that politicians engage in self-serving behavior just like everyone else. But there’s a profound difference between them and us. In the private economy, we can only make ourselves better off by providing value to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
States such as Illinois, California, New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey have very serious structural problems because of high tax burdens and unsustainable spending levels (often associated with excessive pay and benefits for bureaucrats). I frequently write about...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Considering that America’s Founders created a very small central government that operated for more than 100 years without any income tax (or any other broad-based tax), it’s very disappointing that Washington is now consuming more than 20 percent of our nation’s...
