by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Looking at the title of today’s column, the answer is yes, and it’s been yes for a long time. But what’s been happening so far in California is slow-motion suicide. Every year, it seems, there is more taxing, more...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Over the years, I’ve written multi-column series comparing Texas and California, as well as New York and Florida. The takeaway from these columns is that New York and California are declining when Texas and Florida are rising. I’ve also...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
I’ve written many times about bad government policy in California (too many times to count), but I’ve only highlighted bad policy in Los Angeles four times over the past 16 years (here, here, here, and here). But something caught my eye that demands...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, States
In Part XIII of my series comparing Texas and California (previous seven editions can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), I shared data showing that the burden of state spending was growing much faster...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, States, Taxation
California’s top fiscal problem is an ever-growing burden of government spending. In case anyone thinks that is just empty rhetoric, the state budget over the past three decades has risen at twice the rate of inflation. One consequences of ever-expanding...
