by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
I want Reaganism/Thatcherism mostly because I support good policy, but I also think small-government conservatism is good politics (my 4th Theorem). Especially compared to big-government conservatism, which suffered a landslide loss yesterday...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 27, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I wrote earlier this year about Kenya’s fiscal policy and I made two points. Kenya is in trouble because the burden of government spending has exploded over the past twenty-plus years. Tax increases in Kenya are backfiring because people are changing their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy that originally was created to engage in benign activities such as gathering statistics about member nations. It still does some of that, but it also has...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office issued a new 10-year fiscal forecast showing spending, revenues, and red ink between 2025 and 2034. As these examples show, almost all of the resulting headlines focused on deficits and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
What’s the biggest problem with California? Anti-growth class-warfare tax policy? A bloated and inefficient public sector? Excessive red tape and regulation? Boondoggles like the “Train to Nowhere“? An anti-business economic climate? Bad policies...
