by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Is Greece the international version of New Jersey or is New Jersey the American version of Greece? Is New Jersey the national version of Chicago, or is Chicago the the local version of New Jersey? The answer is yes, regardless of how the question is phrased because –...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 27, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
About 10 years ago, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released this video to explain that America’s real fiscal problem is too much spending and that red ink is best viewed as a symptom of that problem. I wrote a primer on this issue two years ago, but I want to...
by Brian Garst | Jan 26, 2020 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Morning Consult on January 27, 2020. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is the Department of Labor agency tasked to enforce Executive Order 11246, which lays out the affirmative action and anti-discrimination requirements...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Government intervention has made a mess of health care in America. Programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, along with the tax code’s healthcare exclusion, have created a massive third-party-payer problem. The inevitable result is systemic inefficiency and ever-rising...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Back in 2010, I wrote about the absurd contention, promoted by some advocates of Keynesian economics, that wars are good for prosperity. According to this crackpot theory, destroying wealth is a net positive because people then have to spend money to rebuild. Now this...
