by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2023 | Blogs, Health Care
I periodically use “Least Surprising Headline” to call attention to articles citing very predictable outcomes. Pandemic spending being a magnet for fraud.European politicians finding another excuse to expand government.Bailouts not solving...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 2, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Mostly because of an aging population, entitlement spending in the United States is projected to become a much bigger burden. Without reform of those programs, the U.S. within a few decades will have a European-sized level of government spending....
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 1, 2023 | Blogs, States, Uncategorized
Whether at the federal level, state level, or local level, my biggest problem with bureaucrats is that many of them work for agencies and departments that should not exist. My second biggest problem is that they are overpaid compared to workers in the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Education
Although it is only 2023, the 2020s already can be categorized as the decade of school choice thanks to legislation in West Virginia, Arizona, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma, and North Carolina. The main...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 28, 2023 | Blogs, Education, Taxation
I wrote more than four years ago about a misguided soda tax in Philadelphia. This video from John Stossel updates us on what’s happened. As usual, John makes good points I’m especially amazed that he was able to get an overpaid local politician to go on camera to...
