by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
Back in 2012, I was both amused and horrified to learn that the Greek government actually required entrepreneurs to submit…um…stool samples if they wanted to set up online companies. Well, there’s apparently a surplus of that…er…material on the streets of San...
by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
When I first created the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame, I confess that my standards were a bit slack. I awarded membership to government workers that are grossly overpaid (see here and here, for instance), but otherwise didn’t really do anything special to merit awards. In...
by Dan Mitchell | May 4, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I wrote last July about how greedy politicians in Seattle, Washington, were trying to impose a local income tax. That effort has been stymied since there’s anti-income-tax language in the state constitution (Washington is one of nine states without that punitive...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 16, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, States
Politicians have a giant incentive to provide lavish benefits to interest groups that then recycle some of the loot back to elected officials in the form of campaign contributions. But the real key to the scam is that the bill gets imposed on future generations. The...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I periodically fret that individualism is dying in the United States and that Americans are morphing into handout-loving Europeans. Well, the spirit of 1776 is not completely dead. There are still some Americans who stand up against the greedy, grasping, and...
