by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
The healthcare sector is a tragic example of Mitchell’s Law in action, with politicians expanding the role of government in response to problems (rising prices and inefficiency) caused by previous expansions of government. The...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
One of the my favorite publications from the Tax Foundation is the annual International Tax Competitiveness Index (here’s what I wrote in 2020 and 2019). The 2021 Index, authored by Daniel Bunn and Elke Asen, has now been released,...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2021 | Blogs, Europe
Let’s look today at one of main arguments for Biden’s tax-and-spend agenda. A column in the New York Times, authored by Spencer Bokat-Lindell, suggests that the United States needs to increase government spending on child care to “shrink the gap”...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Biden’s tax-and-spend budget plan is based on dishonesty, and I’m just talking about his preposterous claim that a massive expansion of government has “zero cost.” On the outlay side of the fiscal ledger, he’s actually proposing to increase the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 17, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Some of my left-leaning friends (as well as some non-friends) think Nordic nations such as Sweden are shining examples of successful socialism. They’re wrong. Not only are they wrong, but those nations actually are case studies of how big welfare...
