by Dan Mitchell | Jul 25, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Hong Kong used to be a role model for good economic policy, but China’s crackdown has had a negative effect, so Singapore is now considered the jurisdiction with the most economic freedom. But I also like to cite Taiwan, which is a top-20...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
At the risk of stating the obvious, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” is grotesquely disappointing. This chart from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget tells you everything you need to know. We have a federal budget that is far too...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
France is a role model, but not in a good way. It is a stark example of the dangers of excessive government spending. To elaborate, it has the largest fiscal burden of any first-world nation, which necessitates an oppressive tax regime....
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the most unfortunate features of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is that it expands the deduction for state and local taxes, thus weakening one of the best provisions of the 2017 tax package. This is bad news since it is foolish to have a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
A major theme of my daily columns is that economic freedom is a universal recipe for faster growth and better economic performance. But the flip side is that statist policies inevitably lead to less prosperity. And these statements are true...
