by Dan Mitchell | Oct 7, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I’ve been warning for many years (including less than two weeks ago) that it would be a big mistake to have a “grand bargain” budget deal that includes tax increases. This is not because of math. It is possible, of course, to have an acceptable...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Even though America’s long-run fiscal outlook is very grim, I wrote a two-part series earlier this year (here and here) to explain why the situation is not hopeless. First and foremost, I noted that the only good solution is long-run spending...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
The burden of federal spending today is too high, diverting resources from the productive sector of the economy and sapping America’s economic vitality. Unfortunately, today’s bad news about excessive government spending will become tomorrow’s...
by Robert O'Quinn | Sep 8, 2023 | CF&P Foundation Prosperitas Studies, Publications
[PDF Version] Federal Spending Primer, Part III: The Spending Problem is an Entitlement Problem By Robert P. O’Quinn* Part I of this series explained that there are different types of spending while Part II noted that the overall burden of federal spending...
by Robert O'Quinn | Sep 6, 2023 | CF&P Foundation Prosperitas Studies, Publications
[PDF Version] Federal Spending Primer, Part II: The Spending Burden By Robert P. O’Quinn* There are several ways to measure the burden of government spending and how that burden changes over time. The simplest way is to look at how much government is...
