by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
As I wrote last month, the world is a laboratory that teaches us about the relative merits of free enterprise and statism. I usually apply this insight to national governments. Countries with total statism (North Korea, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Venezuela) are...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Other than noting that it is a form of collectivism, coercion, and interventionism, I have not paid much attention to fascism. Today, we’ll take a closer look at this statist ideology, and we’ll start with this video from Matt Kibbe. And since I’ll be...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 24, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
In Part I of this series about six months ago, I wrote that “I favor ‘freedom conservatism‘ over ‘national conservatism‘ because the former is unambiguously based on liberty and the latter veers toward populism.” And I defined a populist as “someone who exploits...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 11, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
There are three important things to understand about Western Europe. The burden of government is larger than it is in the United States. Lower-income and middle-class taxpayers finance that extra spending. Europe’s greater fiscal burden is associated with less...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
If you want to understand Washington’s fiscal profligacy, this chart based on OMB data shows what has happened to the federal budget over the past 15 years. There are two big things to understand. We had some very admirable spending restraint...
