by Dan Mitchell | Nov 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Biden’s budget plan is based on fraudulent numbers, but it is also based on the fraudulent idea that a big, European-style welfare state can be financed without fleecing lower-income and middle-class taxpayers. I’ve repeatedly pointed out that this is not...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Back in 2017, I shared my Second Theorem of Government to warn why it is so important to resist new government giveaway programs. And I used Obamacare as a costly example. Simply stated, it’s much easier to block new handouts than it is to take...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 31, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Thanks to socialism, Venezuela is a basket case. This video from John Stossel asks if the United States can and should learn from this bad example. The easy answer is yes. Indeed, you can click here and here to get 56 examples of why we...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
During his 2012 reelection campaign, Barack Obama created a fictional character named Julia and showed how she could mooch off taxpayers from cradle to grave. Given Biden’s reputation as a plagiarizer, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
After the people of the United Kingdom voted to escape the European Union, I wondered whether the Conservative Party would “find a new Margaret Thatcher” to enact pro-market reforms and thus “take advantage of a golden opportunity” to “prosper in a post-Brexit...
