by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Given the routine corruption and reckless spending in Washington, I frequently get asked how I keep my sanity. It’s possible, as some of my friends argue, that I’m not actually sane. That would explain why I try to put my finger in the dyke of big government as more...
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 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 | Dec 29, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
In 2011, I wrote about how taxpayers were getting pillaged to finance a new metro line in Fairfax County, Virginia. But you won’t be surprised to learn that California taxpayers are getting screwed even worse. I’ve since learned, however, that the real experts at...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I expressed approval when Trump proposed to reduce U.S. funding for international bureaucracies, mostly because of my disdain for the statist policy agenda of the International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Sadly, there’s has...
