by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
It’s difficult to be optimistic about some parts of the world. When I look at Greece and Italy, for instance, I can’t help but think that economic renaissance is very unlikely, in part because of demographics, but even more so because voters have been conditioned to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 31, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The invaluable John Stossel has an entertaining and informative video that estimates how many handouts are being promised by Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Elizabeth Warren. Wow, how depressing. When I wrote about about the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2019 | Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Way back in early 2016, I asked whether Donald Trump believed in smaller government. A few months later, I concluded that the answer was no. Trump – like Bush and Nixon – was a big-government Republican. I wish that I was wrong. But if you look at the budget deal he...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 15, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
The Nordic nations punch above their weight in global discussions of economic policy. Advocates of bigger government in the United States, such as Bernie Sanders, claim that those countries are proof that socialism can work. But there’s a big problem with that claim....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
By offering all sorts of freebies to various constituencies, Bernie Sanders has positioned himself as the true-believing socialist in the Democratic race (even though he’s actually a member of the “top-1 percent”). But he has plenty of competition. Kamala...
