by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2022 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
I wrote last month about a tax-and-spend proposal for single-payer healthcare in California (sort of a state version of “Medicare for All“). I also analyzed the scheme in this discussion with Gene Tunny of Australia. What’s remarkable, as Gene mentioned in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
I wrote back in 2012 that California voters opted for “slow-motion economic suicide” by voting to raise the state’s top income tax rate to 13.3 percent. Sure enough, having the nation’s highest state income tax rate has been bad news. More and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 17, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, States
California is a fascinating state for people who follow public policy. It has some immense advantages, such as climate, coastline, and natural resources. But it also has high taxes, absurd regulations, a bloated bureaucracy, and a costly...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Today we’re going to mix two things that seem disconnected. Our first topic is federalism, which is the sensible principle that deciding things at the local level, or even state level, is better than being ruled by faraway politicians and a big, centralized...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 6, 2020 | Blogs, States
I asked a couple of years ago, “How long can California survive big government?” Based on migration patterns, the answer is “Not much longer.” Simply stated, bad fiscal and regulatory policy have produced a long-run decline for the Golden State. So we shouldn’t be...
