by Dan Mitchell | Mar 29, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
While speaking last week at the Acton Institute in Michigan, I responded to a question about the perpetual motion machine of Keynesian economics. For purposes of today’s column, let’s try to understand the Keynesian viewpoint. First and foremost, they think spending...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
Nearly 13 years ago, I narrated this video about the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based international bureaucracy that uses American tax dollars to advocate for bigger government and higher taxes. Everything I said in that video is...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I normally write a column every year (2021, 2020, 2019, etc) when the Tax Foundation releases its International Tax Competitiveness Index, in part because I’m curious to see how the United States compares to other developed nations. I somehow overlooked...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
The United States has a medium-sized welfare state and nations in Western Europe have large-sized welfare states. Which approach is better (or, to be more accurate, less worse)? To answer that question, you want to compare living standards. And...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2023 | Blogs, Education
I almost feel sorry for the union bosses at the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. They were upset when West Virginia adopted statewide school choice in 2021 and they got even angrier when Arizona did the...
