by Dan Mitchell | Jan 15, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Early last decade, when writing about Spain’s fiscal crisis, I pointed out that the country got in trouble for the same reason Greece got in trouble. Simply stated, government spending grew faster than the private economy. And when nations...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve already written a column about the best and worst developments of 2020. But what if we wanted to identify a lesson that society should have learned from the past 12 months? Well, there’s an obvious answer, especially for those of us with libertarian sympathies....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
For supporters of sensible policy, 2008 was not a good year. The economy suffered a big drop thanks to bad government policies (easy-money from the Federal Reserve and corrupt housing subsidies from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). So what did politicians do? Sadly, they...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
When I write an everything-you-need-to-know column, I’m inevitably guilty of hyperbole. All that I’m really doing is highlighting a very compelling example of how politicians make a mess of just about anything they touch. That’s even true in the rare cases when...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Dec 5, 2020 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The American Spectator on December 4, 2020. Pennsylvania recently banned the sale of alcohol on Thanksgiving eve, supposedly to help contain the spread of coronavirus. Talk about a buzzkill. Both the Left and the Right attacked the move...
