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...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2022 | Blogs, Crime, Society
One of the reasons the western world became relatively rich in recent centuries is that “rule of law” evolved to constrain capricious and dictatorial behavior by government officials. But support for the “rule of law” as a concept does not mean blind...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 3, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
I frequently call attention to my “anti-convergence club” because it shows – using decades of data – that you get more prosperity in nations with more economic liberty. And that’s true everyplace in the world. Including in Eastern Europe, as we can see from...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 2, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
As we have seen in nations such as Greece and Argentina, voters sometimes cannot resist the temptation to support profligate politicians – a process that can lead to “goldfish government.” In effect, voters choose fiscal suicide. There’s even a quote,...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2022 | Blogs, Uncategorized
My views on gridlock were fully captured in the title of a 2015 column, which stated that divided government was “Better than the Alternative of Expanding Government.” And I followed up with a 2020 column that showed that spending restraint was more...
