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News SC Politics $16 Muffins and the Case for Limited Government
News SC Politics $16 Muffins and the Case for Limited Government
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04 October 2011
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Written by SCPC By now, you’ve probably heard about the $16 muffins. In case you haven’t, the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Justice found that DOJ officials were paying more than $8 for cups of coffee, $32 per person for Cracker Jacks, and $16 for muffins. So for most of last week the Washington press corps and blogosphere descended into one of its weekly brawls about the facts of the case. For our part, we’re inclined to agree with Matt Welch, who pointed out that waste like this is simply what government does – whether it’s an $800 billion “stimulus” that doesn’t stimulate, a $600 toilet seat, or a $16 muffin. That’s why we favor limited government: not because government is intrinsically bad, but because the bigger it gets, the more it wastes. But it’s not as if government waste exists only inside the DC Beltway. It happens in our own back yard with depressing regularity. So we thought we’d take a quick look at some reports published recently by the Legislative Audit Council, just to get our private-sector juices flowing. Here’s just a taste of what we found.
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