by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2019 | Blogs, Taxation
There are some remarkable stories of the private sector showing initiative when governments fail to maintain infrastructure. In response to dithering by government, residents and businesses in Hawaii put up $4 million to fix an important community road. Smugglers in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 30, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Redistribution has a corrosive impact on both ends. Recipients are harmed because they get trapped in dependency, and workers are harmed because taxes discourage productive behavior. Yet young people seem susceptible to this ideology, even when they are among the main...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 29, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Let’s look at an article that combines two things – wasteful spending and Washington dishonesty – that I don’t like and which was published in The Hill. The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday approved a GOP-backed budget resolution that would allow for draconian...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2019 | Blogs, Taxation
It’s not easy to identify the worst international bureaucracy. Some days, I’m tempted to pick the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. After all, the Paris-based bureaucracy is infamous for pushing bigger government and higher taxes. Other days, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Iceland is a tiny little country with just 338,000 people (about the population of Santa Ana, CA), but that doesn’t mean it can’t teach us lessons about public policy. I wrote about the nation’s approach to fisheries in 2016, and explained that the property...
