by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
What’s the most poorly governed city in the United States? Is it San Francisco, Detroit, New York City, Minneapolis, or Seattle? How about none of the above. At least if we care about empirical research. In 2019, I shared a...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 19, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
It’s been a while since I shared this video about the Rahn Curve (or Armey-Rahn Curve), so let’s watch this Golden Oldie from 2010. The insight of the Rahn Curve (sort of a spending version of the Laffer Curve) is that economic performance declines once government...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
In the words of Yogi Berra, the 2024 presidential race is “Deja vu all over again.” Except it is Kamala Harris and Donald Trump competing to make government bigger instead of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump doing the same thing. Harris and Trump both...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 2, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In the pre-Trump era, I used to ask whether Republicans were fiscally responsible Reaganites or big-spending Bushies. In recent years, the question has become whether the GOP is a small-government Reagan party or a big-government Trump party....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 31, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris proposed to give taxpayer funds to pro-tax, pro-spending groups like the Center for American Progress or the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Republicans presumably would argue against handouts. After all, why...
