by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2023 | Blogs
There are some policy fights that focus on technical disagreements (for instance, how much do deadweight losses increase when tax rates go up?) and other policy fights that involve moral disagreements (for instance, should drugs be...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 19, 2023 | Blogs, Health Care
I often bemoan the fact that government intervention has created an expensive and inefficient health system in the United States. But that does not mean I want a total government takeover of the health sector like in the United Kingdom....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Back in 2012, I wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal to highlight the success of Switzerland’s spending cap (also known as the “debt brake”). Swiss voters voted for this spending cap in 2001 and ever since it took effect in 2003,...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote last week about President Macron’s very modest effort to slow down the growth of the welfare state and started with a chart showing that France has the highest overall burden of government spending in the developed world. The good news (relatively speaking) is...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
Last week, I wrote about Biden’s proposed budget, focusing on the aggregate increase in the fiscal burden. Today, let’s take a closer look at his class-warfare tax proposals. Consider this Part VI in a series (Parts I-V can be...
