Budget & Tax, Good Government

The mission creep

November 17, 2017

Jonathan Small

“In good times, I do think that it’s true that government is subject to ‘mission creep,’” my old boss Scott Meacham once observed. “When the revenue is flowing maybe there’s a trend to drift into areas that are outside of the core mission or missions of government. What happens when things are going well is that things that are nice to do become new programs.”

With state government spending at an all-time high, I think of that quote often.

Read the rest over on The Journal Record.