by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
As illustrated by the “anti-convergence club,” there is a very strong relationship between economic liberty and national prosperity. Simply stated, people enjoy much higher levels of income in nations where there’s more free enterprise and less...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Regulations, Taxation
Because politicians have built-in incentives to expand the size and scope of government, it is very rare to find elected officials who actually deliver more liberty. Some of them will offer rhetoric, of course, but very few of them produce results....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I’ve previously explained the difference between entitlement spending and discretionary spending. I have also explained that entitlements are the main reason the United States faces a very grim fiscal future. And...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 6, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Federal bureaucrats are overpaid compared to workers in the productive sector of the economy. State and local bureaucrats also are overpaid compared to people in the private sector, though usually the gap is not quite as large. But “usually” does...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2022 | Blogs, Education
When I write about government schools, I often revise Winston Churchill’s famous quote about the Royal Air Force so that it reads “never have so many paid so much to achieve so little.” That’s because American taxpayers have been dumping ever-larger...
