by Dan Mitchell | Apr 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
It’s not too surprising to learn that spending money on “high-speed” rail is foolish. And it’s hardly a revelation to learn that politicians over-promise and under-deliver when they push through these boondoggles. My Cato colleague, Randall O’Toole, has written...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
There are very serious ways to save huge amounts of money from the defense budget, largely by making smarter choices about defining America’s national security. This obviously involves high-profile decisions about whether it is smart to engage in nation-building in...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
I’ve been writing too much about the Ryan budget, the government shutdown, and other fiscal policy issues. Time for some wholesome politician bashing. But I’m not going to pick on the U.S. Congress, which is one of my favorite targets. Instead, we’re going to cross...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
This is the type of story that makes me sick to my stomach. I’ve already commented on how I don’t like redistribution from rich to poor, but I really, really hate redistribution from poor to rich. And that’s exactly what happens when taxpayers subsidize the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Privacy
Dana Milbank is a snarky leftist who writes for the Washington Post, but I have to give him credit for an amusing column today about the new big-brother diet guidelines from our incompetent federal government. Here are a few excerpts. In the late 1970s, before the...
