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...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
Four years ago, I explained that Kamala Harris supported a very radical agenda of equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity. I don’t want to engage in hyperbole, but that’s unadulterated Marxism (“From each according to his ability,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Citing a report in the New York Times, I wrote two days ago about how excessive government spending is the real reason for economic and political turmoil in Sri Lanka and Bolivia. Kenya and Pakistan also were featured in the story, but I didn’t focus on...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
At the end of last week, I wrote about the Conservative Party’s crushing defeat in the United Kingdom. In that column, I cited the Wall Street Journal, which groused that the Tories didn’t deliver better economic policy. Indeed,...
