by Dan Mitchell | Jan 15, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Which state gets the biggest share of its budget from the federal government? Is it California, the left’s bizarre alternative universe? Is it Illinois, the poster child for big-government excess? Nope, not even close. As a matter of fact, those two jurisdictions are...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 14, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Supply Side, Taxation
I don’t like tax increases, but I like having additional evidence that higher tax rates change behavior. So when my leftist friends “win” by imposing tax hikes, I try to make lemonade out of lemons by pointing out “supply-side” effects. Such as the big drop in soda...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Since I can’t even keep track of schools of thought on the right (libertarians, traditional conservatives, neocons, reform conservatives, compassionate conservatives, Trump-style populists, etc), I’m not going to pretend to know what’s happening on the left. But it...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
President Obama gave his farewell speech two nights ago, orating for more than 50 minutes. As noted by the Washington Examiner, his remarks were “longer than the good-bye speeches of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined.” But this wasn’t because he...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation, VAT
I don’t often use the literary tactic of referring to something as the “best-ever.” Indeed, the only time that phrase appeared in the title of a column was back in 2014 when I smugly wrote about the collapse of government-run single-payer healthcare in Vermont....
