by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending
Education spending and teacher pay have become big issues in certain states. Unfortunately, not for the right reason. In an ideal world, taxpayers would be demanding systemic reform because government schools are getting record amounts of money (higher than any other...
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Last week, I shared a TV interview about Obama’s budget, but much of the discussion was routine and didn’t warrant special attention. But there was one small part of the interview, dealing with the silly claim that America became a rich nation because of socialism,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 27, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending
As a taxpayer, I don’t like the fact that government employees get paid more than folks in the private sector. But the big difference between bureaucrats and regular workers isn’t so much the pay, it’s the fringe benefits. And perhaps the biggest difference of...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 6, 2013 | Blogs, Economics
Perhaps because he wants to divert attention from the slow-motion train wreck of Obamacare, the President is signaling that he will renew his efforts to throw more people into the unemployment line. Needless to say, that’s not how the White House would describe the...
