by Dan Mitchell | Aug 27, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Back in March, I explained that a spending cap is desirable, but noted that it’s important to set a limit that actually restrains government spending. I made the same point as part of a recent speech to Hawaii’s Grassroot Institute. My main...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 26, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
Way back in 2009, in the early days of writing this column, I shared an image that aptly summarizes the bad things that happen when politicians interfere with economic liberty. The simple message is that more government is almost always the wrong answer....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 25, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
As a general rule, some of the worst people are attracted to the world of politics. As such, we should never be surprised when politicians push bad policy. But there are bad ideas…and there are really bad ideas. At the risk of understatement, Biden’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
As an economist, I can immediately think of several ways that big government is bad news for poor people. Redistribution programs that trap poor people in dependency and produce inter-generational poverty.Government schools that do an awful job of...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
When I wrote the first edition of “Don’t Trust Economists” back in 2010, the column focused on a chart showing that economists failed to predict every major economic downturn for the previous two decades. Well, we now have some new data making the same...
