by Dan Mitchell | Jun 17, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, States
California is a fascinating state for people who follow public policy. It has some immense advantages, such as climate, coastline, and natural resources. But it also has high taxes, absurd regulations, a bloated bureaucracy, and a costly...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Politicians and bureaucrats are (self-interested) conduits for taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group of people. Milton Friedman famously explained that this is why they largely don’t care about how much money is spent or how...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Between March 2020 and January 2021, I authored a five-part series (see here, here, here, here, and here) on how big government hindered a quick and effective response to the coronavirus pandemic. In this discussion with Brad Polumbo, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 11, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Back in 2016, I created a 2×2 matrix to illustrate the difference between redistributionism (tax Person A and give to Person B) and state planning (politicians and bureaucrats trying to steer the economy, either through direct...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
While Paul Krugman sometimes misuses and misinterprets numbers for ideological reasons (see his errors regarding the United States, France, Canada, the United States, Estonia, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom),...
