by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Over the past couple of years, one of the most disturbing – and also revealing – things to happen in Washington is when Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposed giving more money to people “unwilling to work.” As discussed in this interview, the left...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
When I first looked at the issue of “basic income,” back in 2013, my gut reaction was deep skepticism. That’s because I feared many people would drop out of the labor force if they could live off government handouts (as illustrated by this Wizard-of-Id...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Two days ago, I shared data showing that people in the big nations of Western Europe only have about 75 cents of income for every $1 that Americans earn. That’s a remarkable gap, and it’s getting larger rather than smaller, even though theory...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
While he’s not as outwardly radical as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang has joined together two very bad ideas – universal handouts and a value-added tax. Needless to say, I was not overflowing with praise when asked to comment. At the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
When “basic income” became an issue a few years ago, I was instinctively opposed because I don’t want Uncle Sam sending big checks to everyone in the country. But I admitted that there were a few reasonable arguments for the idea. Most notably, plans for a basic...
