by Dan Mitchell | Jun 16, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Every time some class-warfare Democrat or Charlie Brown Republican says we need higher taxes, I think of all the ways the government wastes money and I get angry because the political elite is ripping off the American people. Should we send more money to Washington...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’ve written before about the importance of getting rid of the Department of Transportation, and I’ve also written about Republicans getting in bed with big government. So you can imagine how agitated I was to read this article about transportation spending at...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2012 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I was nauseated when Newt Gingrich did the infamous global warming ad with Nancy Pelosi. I was disgusted when he criticized Paul Ryan’s entitlement reforms. But I’m not sure what my reaction is to Newt’s latest brain fart. For lack of anything clever, let’s just say...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Government Waste
Last month, I shared a video about bloated bureaucracy from a group called Government Gone Wild. That generated a big response, so here’s another video from the same group, only this one looks at egregious examples of government waste. If you like videos on wasteful...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
The left wanted to get one thing from the Supercommittee, and that was to seduce gullible Republicans into a 1990-style tax increase deal in order to enable bigger government. But I was pleasantly surprised when GOPers failed to surrender, which means that taxpayers...
