by Dan Mitchell | Jul 7, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I have a series of columns analyzing “Great Moments in Foreign Government” to show that other countries have politicians and bureaucrats who are just as foolish as their American counterparts. I guess this is the policy version of “misery loves company.” And it’s also...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2023 | Blogs, Education
There’s much to admire about public policy in Canada, including good policies today (private air traffic control and no department of education) and good policies in the past (rigorous spending restraint in the 1990s). But there are also mistakes. Like...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2022 | Blogs, Crime, Society
One of the reasons the western world became relatively rich in recent centuries is that “rule of law” evolved to constrain capricious and dictatorial behavior by government officials. But support for the “rule of law” as a concept does not mean blind...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Nearly 10 years ago, I shared some data to show how a Swiss-style spending cap would have prevented some of the excess spending of the Bush and Obama years. Trillion-dollar deficits would have been avoided. But, more...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 12, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Time to update our series on “great moments in foreign government.” We’ll start with Jersey. I wrote a few years ago about the (relatively) good tax laws in that British dependent territory off the coast of France. But there are two ways those laws...
