First-Hand Exposure to TSA Inefficiency and Incompetence

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy

I’ve posted several videos about the Keystone Cops of airport security (see here, here, here, here, and here) and here’s another one to enjoy. Why am I motivated to mock the Transportation Security Administration today? For the simple reason that I went to...

Biden’s Boondoggle(s) and the Burden of Government Spending

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements

First we got Biden’s $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus. Then we got his $1 trillion-plus infrastructure boondoggle. Now Congress may be on the verge of approving the President’s budget, which (if we use honest numbers) is a $5 trillion plan to...

Another Good Election Result for Taxpayers

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation

Immediately after election day in early November, I applauded voters in the (very blue) state of Washington. They wisely expressed their opposition to a plan by state politicians to impose a capital gains tax. And it wasn’t even close. Voters said...

Will Excessive Government Spending Cause Another European Debt Crisis?

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

I’ve periodically warned the European nations such as France, Italy, Greece, and Spain almost surely are doomed to suffer a fiscal crisis. This is because governments in Europe didn’t respond to the 2010 crisis by actually...

What Lessons Can Be Learned by Comparing European Countries and American States?

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 16, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe

I regularly cite data about Europe’s sub-par economic outcomes in hopes of driving home the point that the United States should not copy that continent’s approach of onerous fiscal burdens. Which is now a very relevant topic with Biden...