by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Keynesian economics is a perpetual-motion machine for statists. The way to boost growth, they argue, is to have governments borrow lots of money from the economy’s productive sector and then spend it on anything and everything. Even if the money is squandered on...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
I’m impressed, in a dark and gloomy way. I thought the Italian healthcare official who showed up for work only 15 days in a nine-year period set the record for bureaucratic loafing. Based on longevity of laxity, he definitely out-did the San Francisco paper pusher who...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 7, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Energy, Taxation
Because of the need to control the size and scope of government, it’s critically important to reject all tax hikes. Simply stated, once politicians think there’s a possibility of more revenue coming to DC, any commitment to spending restraintand entitlement reform...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Shortly after Obamacare was enacted, I began to maintain a list of groups that were victimized by the law. But after listing kids, low-income workers, andretirees, I quickly realized this was a senseless exercise because virtually everyone in the country was going to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 18, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Like a lot of libertarians and small-government conservatives, I’m prone to pessimism. How can you be cheerful, after all, when you look at what’s been happening in our lifetimes. New entitlement programs, adopted by politicians from all parties, are further adding to...
