by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Since I’m a big fan of spending caps, I’m very happy to be in Zurich as part of the Free Market Road Show. Switzerland’s spending cap (called “the debt brake“) is probably the best system in the world. It does have an escape clause for emergencies,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
My original intent today was to write about Hungary’s economic policy, presumably focusing on the country’s sometimes good and sometimes bad tax policies. Why Hungary? Because I’m in Budapest for the next stop on the Free Market Road...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 26, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
Back in 2012, I endorsed a wretched socialist, Francois Hollande, to be president of France. I knew he was terrible, but the supposedly right-wing incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, also was a proponent of dirigisme. As I wrote at the time, “it’s always better to...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
I’m in the United Kingdom for the Free Market Road Show and had planned on writing today about the awful economic policies of Boris Johnson, the supposedly Conservative Prime Minister. Yes, he produced an acceptable Brexit, but otherwise...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
No sensible person wants to copy the big-spending policies of failed welfare states such as Greece. Unfortunately, many politicians lack common sense (or, more accurately, they are motivated by short-run political ambition rather than...
