by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 31, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Townhall on August 31, 2017. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) often says that there is an unholy alliance between the right and left that conspires to spend more of our money at every turn. He’s absolutely right. Big Brother has spent taxpayer money on...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Donald Trump’s Budget Blueprint doesn’t thrill me, largely because it’s silent on the very important issues of tax reform and entitlement reform. All that he’s proposing is to rearrange the allocation of annually appropriated spending (the so-called discretionary...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Having lived in the Washington area for more than three decades, I have many friends who work for the federal government. Most of them will privately admit that they are very lucky since federal salaries and benefits are considerably higher than what they could earn...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 12, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
As a public finance economist, I normally focus on big-picture issues such as the economically debilitating effect of excessive government spending and punitive taxation. But as a human being, what irks me most about big government is the way that insiders use the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 13, 2015 | Big Government, Government Waste
If you did a word-association test with people after describing jaw-dropping examples of government incompetence, you would probably get answers like “angry” or “wasteful.” Especially if you asked around April 15. Though in some cases of spectacular and inexplicable...
