by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
The first four rounds of my New York vs. Florida contest (available here, here, here, and here) largely focused on Florida’s superior economic policies and superior economic results. So you won’t be surprised to learn that Round #5 continues that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote a two-part series (here and here) about Donald Trump supporting massive middle-class tax increases. Trump does not admit that is his policy, of course, but that is an unavoidable outcome since he opposes entitlement reform. In the interest of fairness and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2023 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
While I have profound worries about the future of fiscal policy, I wonder if developments in monetary policy are an even greater threat to individual liberty. More specifically, I’ve written a five-part series about governments and their “War Against...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 7, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Today we are going to look at proposals to expand the burden of Social Security payroll taxes, and let’s start by recycling this 2008 video. All of the analysis in the video is still accurate, but two of the numbers need to be updated. Social Security’s long-run...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
My biggest economic concern is that the United States, because of population aging and poorly designed entitlement programs, is slowly but surely going to become a European-style welfare state. To help convince people that this is a bad outcome, I...
