by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
It’s unfortunate that Senator Tom Coburn is retiring. He hasn’t been perfect, but nobody can question is commitment to limited government. He’s been a rare voice in Washington against wasteful spending. And he’s going out with a bang, having just released the 2014...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Remember the Spending Quiz from 2010, which asked people to guess whether absurd examples of government waste were true or false? Well, we have a new video on government waste, though bureaucrats and politicians have become so profligate it doesn’t even bother to...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Taxpayers all across America send lots of money to Washington, DC, in part because we’re supposed to believe that redistribution is a legitimate and desirable function of the federal government. But this is a very perverse form of redistribution. All that money going...
by Brian Garst | Nov 25, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Daily Caller on November 25, 2012. If Mitt Romney thought the gotcha-obsessed political press would let him escape into obscurity following his election defeat, he has rather quickly been disabused of the notion. After Romney suggested in...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I agree with George Will that it’s okay to reduce Pentagon spending. After all, the United States accounts for almost one-half of the world’s military outlays, about twice as much as the combined total of possible enemies. But I also agree that national defense is one...
