Taxpayers get Screwed to Finance a $537,767-Per-Year Bureaucrat

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy

I’ve reported some horror stories about bureaucrats ripping off taxpayers with lavish compensation packages, including: The chief bureaucrat of a low-income California city getting almost $800,000 per year. Cops in Oakland getting average compensation of $188,000. A...

Government Insiders Rip Off Taxpayers…Again

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized

I’ve written many times about politicians and bureaucrats screwing taxpayers with lavish compensation packages, but this story from Philadelphia is jaw dropping. Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco is retiring Friday, but only so she can collect a $478,057 pension check and...

Is Pentagon Waste Even More Egregious than Welfare-State Waste?

by Dan Mitchell | Jul 31, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste

I realize that national defense is one of the few legitimate functions of the federal government, but that doesn’t mean the Pentagon budget isn’t riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse. Here’s a jaw-dropping example reported by Bloomberg. A U.S. contractor in Iraq...

From East Coast to West Coast, Bureaucrats Are Ripping Off Taxpayers

by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

Let’s start in Washington, where USA Today reports that there are “at least 17,828 federal employees whose annualized salaries totaled $180,000 or more in September 2010.” That’s rather distressing news for taxpayers, but these excerpts from the story provide...