by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Since I’ve spent the past 25 years analyzing government, I’m used to spectacular levels of waste and incompetence. Examples of pork such as “$27 light bulbs” and the “turtle tunnel” barely cause me to raise an eyebrow. It takes something really amazing to grab my...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 28, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Constitution, Government Spending, Government Waste
Very few things that happen in Washington are legitimate functions of the federal government. I’ve already posted about the need to dismantle the Department of Transportation and send it back to the states, but some things shouldn’t even be handled by state and local...