by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Senate Republicans have produced their Obamacare repeal legislation, though as I noted at the end of this interview, it’s really more a bill about Medicaid reform than Obamacare repeal. While it’s disappointing that big parts of Obamacare are left in place, it’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 27, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
When I debate my leftist friends on the minimum wage, it’s often a strange experience. When other people are listening or watching, they’ll adopt a very extreme position and basically claim that politicians have the power to dramatically boost take-home pay by simply...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
If I was Captain Ahab in a Herman Melville novel, my Moby Dick would be the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. I have spent more than 15 years fighting that Paris-based bureaucracy. Even to the point that the OECD threatened to throw me in a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 25, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
I periodically share data showing that living standards are higher in the United States than in Europe. My goal isn’t to be jingoistic. Instead, I’m warning readers that we won’t be as prosperous if we copy our tax-and-spend friends on the other side of the Atlantic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
My daily columns usually revolve around public policy issues such as tax reform, entitlements, and corrupt government. And while sometimes get a bit agitated about bad things in Washington, it’s because I’m a curmudgeonly libertarian, not because of some personal...
