by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I have Republican friends who don’t trust Michael Bloomberg because he switched parties and Democratic friends who don’t trust him for the same reason. I tell all of them that it’s more important to focus on his policy agenda rather than his partisan identification....
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
I wrote last October about how poor nations that followed the pro-market recipe of the “Washington Consensus” in the 1980s and 1990s got good results. Johan Norberg addresses the same topic in this video. Sadly, international organizations are infamous nowadays...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 14, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Government Spending, States, Taxation
The most important referendum in 2019 was the effort to get Colorado voters to eviscerate the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Fortunately, the people of the Centennial State comfortably rejected the effort to bust the state’s successful spending cap. The most important...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Back in 2012, when America had a budget deficit above $1 trillion, Investor’s Business Daily opined that America’s fiscal mess could have been avoided if politicians had simply adopted a TABOR-style spending cap starting in 1998. As illustrated by the accompanying...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
I pointed out yesterday that Donald Trump has increased domestic spending at a faster rate than Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, or Jimmy Carter. The day before, I castigated him for proposing a budget that expands the burden of government spending by $2 trillion over the...
