by Dan Mitchell | Apr 9, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Senator Bernie Sanders wants to dramatically increase the burden of government and he claims that his policies won’t lead to economic misery because nations such as Sweden show that you can be a prosperous country with a big welfare state. Perhaps, but there are...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
The debate over socialism shouldn’t even exist. Everywhere big government has been tried, it has failed. And we have reams of evidence that free-market economies dramatically out-perform statist economies. Yet the siren song of socialism still appeals to a subsection...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 30, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are basically two peas in a pod on economic policy. The only difference is that Sanders wants America to become Greece at a faster rate. Folks on the left may get excited by whether we travel 60 mph in the wrong direction or 90 mph...
by Brian Garst | Mar 23, 2016 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
There’s few things politicians resent more than being forced to confront the consequences of their own bad policies. So it is especially with the awful corporate tax code, which increasingly renders U.S. businesses unable to compete on the global stage. Saddled...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2016 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
I don’t know whether it’s because I’m dedicated or masochistic, but I woke up at 3:00 AM in Serbia to live-tweet the Democratic presidential debate. In retrospect, staying in bed would have been a better choice. This debate was basically the same as the others, with...
