by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Yesterday’s column explained that lobbyists are big winners when the size and scope of government increases. For instance, a bigger budget means special interests hire lobbyists to obtain ever-larger slices of pork.Moreover, added red...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 6, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
Since I went to the archives for a video yesterday, let’s do the same thing today. Here’s my 2009 video about the close link between the size of government and the level of corruption. I’m recycling this video because President Biden and his allies in Congress are...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I don’t like shoveling more money at a corrupt IRS, hurting jobs with higher taxes on “book income,” price controls on prescription drugs, or green-energy pork. But, as explained in this video clip, the insult added to injury is that the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 1, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I realize few readers are interested in small, faraway countries. But I periodically write about nations such as Jordan, Cyprus, Latvia, Vanuatu, Panama, and Pakistan because they offer important lessons – mostly negative, but sometimes positive – about fiscal policy....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 31, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
One of the best things about 2021 was the fact that Congress did not approve Joe Biden’s economically debilitating plan to raise taxes and expand the welfare state. His so-called Build Back Better plan was a very bad mix of class-warfare tax...
