by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Government spending, almost by definition, is wasteful. But it’s worth distinguishing between two types of waste. Money that is spent properly but inefficiently.Money that is diverted by crooks and scammers. Today, we’re going to focus on the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 9, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
Compared to international bureaucracies such as the IMF and OECD, the United Nations has very little power to impose bad policy. But that does not mean it should be immune from criticism. There’s an anti-market ideology at the UN and I have specifically...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 29, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Since the economy suffers when tax rates go up and the burden of government spending increases, there obviously are plenty of awful features in President Biden’s newly released budget. If I had to select a worst feature, though, I’d be tempted to...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending, Government Waste, States
My main objection to government employees is that they work for bureaucracies that should not exist (especially the ones in Washington). That being said, I also don’t like how bureaucrats are overpaid compared to workers in the productive sector of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Politicians and bureaucrats are (self-interested) conduits for taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group of people. Milton Friedman famously explained that this is why they largely don’t care about how much money is spent or how...
