by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Over the years, I’ve written multi-column series comparing Texas and California, as well as New York and Florida. The takeaway from these columns is that New York and California are declining when Texas and Florida are rising. I’ve also...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Way back in 2009, I cited a very good article in The American Spectator in hopes of getting people to understand that the United States does not have a capitalist health care system (and I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 28, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I often get asked when the United States will suffer a Greek-style fiscal crisis. My answer is always “I don’t know,” though I freely admit we are heading in that direction. My lack of specificity isn’t merely because economists are lousy...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Government Spending, Taxation
I normally have a Thanksgiving-themed column every year (2024, 2023, 2022, etc, etc), but I just saw something so irritating from the pro-tax crowd at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that I’m going to break with tradition....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Two months ago, I wrote a column about Italy’s fiscal deterioration and included a chart showing the country moving in the wrong direction, both in the past few years as well as since the turn of the century. Let’s now do the same thing, based on IMF...
