by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Earlier this year, speaking at the Acton Institute in Michigan, I presented an optimistic case for spending restraint. My premise was very simple, summarized in four sentences. Spending restraint is desperately needed.Spending restraint is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 17, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
I have done eight columns comparing Texas and California and five columns comparing Florida and New York. But maybe it is time to compare Florida and California? If I do, there’s no comparison, at least based on how people vote with their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 16, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I gladly defend profits. I even defend profits for big companies. But I usually include an all-important caveat that profits are only good if earned in a competitive marketplace. At the risk of understatement, I get angry when big companies...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, States, Supply Side, Taxation
Last year, I shared the “Feel-Good Map of 2022” that showed 18 states had lowered personal and/or corporate income tax since the start of 2021. And that was after showing a map of 11 state lowering tax rates the previous year. Courtesy of the Tax Foundation,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’ve referred to Colorado’s spending cap as a “role model” and the “gold standard,” and I lavished even more praise on the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in this clip from a recent interview with Penn Pfiffner of the TABOR Foundation. If you don’t have a couple of minutes to...
