by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I focus most of my ire on the federal government because bad policy from Washington is the biggest threat to our nation’s freedom and prosperity. But we also get plenty of bad policy from other levels of government. I periodically focus on the foibles of states such...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Society
What do Andy Johnson, Anthony Smelley, the Hammond family, Charlie Engle, Tammy Cooper, Nancy Black, Russ Caswell, Jacques Wajsfelner, Jeff Councelller, Eric Garner, Martha Boneta, James Slatic, Carole Hinders, Salvatore Culosi, and James Lieto, as well as the Sierra...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
What are the main problems with government bureaucrats? Is it that they’re paid too much? Given that they get far more compensation than workers in the economy’s productive sector, that’s certainly true. Is it that there are too many of them? Well, we have lots...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Economics, Government Spending
I’ve written (some would say excessively) about the fact that America has too many bureaucrats and that they’re paid too much. That’s true in Washington. That’s true at the state level. And it’s true for local governments. But since I’m a big believer in beating a...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
My biggest complaint about government employees is that they work for bureaucracies that shouldn’t exist. As far as I’m concerned, they may be the most wonderful, conscientious, and hard-working people in the world, but we shouldn’t have a Department of Housing and...
