by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I wrote last week about the ever-expanding burden of government spending in California. And that was after writing two columns last year (here and here) about the state’s economic decline. But sometimes a specific story is more compelling than broad economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
It’s fun to write about big-picture issues such as tax reform (for instance, should we have a flat tax or national sales tax?). It’s also fun to write about contentious issues such as whether there should be tax increases or whether the tax code should be based on...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Back in 2016, here’s what I said about the debt limit during some congressional testimony (and I made very similar points in some 2013 testimony). Near the end of my testimony (about 4:55) I discuss “prioritization,” which is what would happen if the debt limit is not...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Copying some self-styled national conservatives, Donald Trump this week endorsed major tax increases on lower-income and middle-class Americans. But he embraced huge tax increases in an indirect fashion. He did not say “let’s adopt money-siphoning value-added taxes”...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
In mid-2021, I wrote about long-run policy lessons from the coronavirus pandemic. That column focused on insights from my five-part series (see here, here, here, here, and here) about the failure of big government. More specifically,...
