by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I commonly use “everything you need to know” when sharing a story that summarizes the buffoonery of a government (either international, national, regional, or local). I even occasionally claim that a story (see here, here, and here)...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
There are many strains of libertarians (ranging from left-libertarians to anarcho-capitalists), but I feel safe in stating that they all are skeptical of foreign aid. At the risk of oversimplifying, there are two reasons for the skepticism. Libertarians...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I urged Tea Party Republicans to defund PBS and NPR in 2011 and then made the same recommendation to Trump in the first year of his first term. My argument, as captured by this cartoon, has nothing to do with left-wing bias. Instead, I favor...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 18, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
In 2023, we added a D.C. cop and an Italian teacher to the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame, which is an award bestowed on government employees who “have gone above and beyond the call of duty” in strange, disgusting,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
From a big-picture perspective, the Canadian government does the most damage to the nation’s economy with bad tax policy, bad spending policy, bad health policy, bad monetary policy, and other expensive mistakes. But sometimes it is...
