by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
Some people are urging a national divorce between blue states and red states, but a far more practical approach is Swiss-style federalism. I’ve been a long-time advocate of copying Switzerland. It ranks very high for economic liberty, and this...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
My Fifteenth Theorem of Government points out there is an “unavoidable choice” between entitlement reform and tax policy. Simply stated, the folks who oppose fixing entitlements – including so-called national conservatives and politicians such...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 3, 2023 | Blogs
Back in 2019, I divided China’s recent economic history into three periods. Mao’s utter and total failureDeng’s partial liberalizationXi’s backsliding to statism The net result of these three periods is that China did enjoy some growth thanks...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 2, 2023 | Blogs
Most examples of Mitchell’s Law involve government passing a bad law (increase in minimum wage) that leads to a bad consequence (fewer jobs), which then becomes the excuse for a new bad law (job training programs). Sometimes, though, politicians don’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2023 | Blogs
Libertarians have a knee-jerk desire to shrink the footprint of government, even advocating for unconventional ideas such as private roads, private mail delivery, private pensions, private money, and private air traffic control. And, as captured by this Reason video,...
