by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
If we want more prosperity, what’s the ideal size of government? Anarcho-capitalists would say it shouldn’t exist at all, while some hard-core leftists want something like North Korea, where the state is everything. The rest of us want something between...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Given my libertarian sensibilities, I would probably object to foreign aid programs even if they worked. But I don’t have to deal with that potential quandary because we have ample evidence that you don’t get prosperity by giving money to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 6, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Regarding fiscal policy, almost everyone’s attention is focused on Biden’s growth-sapping plan to increase the burden of taxes and spending. People are right to be concerned. If the President’s plan is approved, the already-grim fiscal outlook for...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2021 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Since I view Ronald Reagan as an honorary libertarian, I was very happy back in 2013 to see that he won a landslide victory over Barack Obama in a hypothetical poll. This meant that voters either were old enough to personally experience...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Energy
I’m not a fan of Joe Biden’s economic policy, particularly his tax-and-spend agenda. I also don’t approve when the Biden Administration uses phony numbers and phony arguments. But what’s really baffling is the use of accurate numbers to...
