by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2025 | Blogs
In 2020, I put together a ranking of recent presidents, mostly because I wanted to make the point that partisan labels don’t necessarily matter. Indeed, over the past 60-plus years, Republicans were some of the worst in terms of statist policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 15, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Earlier this month, I explained that Ronald Reagan deserves praise for shrinking the burden of government spending. Today, starting with this video, let’s add Bill Clinton to the mix and look at how America wound up with budget surpluses in the late 1990s....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
The best feature of libertarians is that we are very principled and look at everything through the lens of the non-aggression principle. By contrast, the worst feature of politics, as explained by the Ninth Theorem of Government, is that it encourages people look at...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 6, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Steve Moore and Art Laffer are the authors of Trumponomics, a largely favorable book about the President’s economic policy. I have a more jaundiced view about Trump. I’m happy to praise his good policies (taxes and regulation), but I also condemn his bad policies...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’ve learned that it’s more important to pay attention to hard numbers rather than political rhetoric. Republicans, for instance, love to beat their chests about spending restraint, but I never believe them without first checking the numbers. Likewise, Democrats have...
