by Dan Mitchell | Nov 2, 2019 | Big Government, Government Spending, Health Care, Taxation
I’ve always considered Senator Bernie Sanders to be the most clueless and misguided of all presidential candidates. But I also think “Crazy Bernie” is actually sincere. He really believes in socialism. Elizabeth Warren, by contrast, seems more calculating. Her...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
In a column last week, I noted that Connecticut ranked near the bottom for state tax policy. And if there was a contest for which state has gone downhill at the fastest pace, the Nutmeg State would likely prevail. Less than 30 years ago, the state was reasonably...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
While he’s not as outwardly radical as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang has joined together two very bad ideas – universal handouts and a value-added tax. Needless to say, I was not overflowing with praise when asked to comment. At the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve opined that statist policies harm young people. I also shared this video explaining why big government is bad for millennials and the Gen-Z crowd. This should be a slam-dunk issue. After all, don’t they know how the communist world collapsed? Aren’t they aware of...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Social Security is projected to consume an ever-larger share of America’s national income, mostly thanks to an aging population. Indeed, demographic change is why the program is bankrupt, with an inflation-adjusted cash-flow deficit of more than $42 trillion. Yet...
