by Dan Mitchell | Jul 27, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The main goal of fiscal policy should be to shrink the burden of government spending, not to balance the budget or lower debt. However, those two goals are not in conflict if policy makers pursue good policy. The evidence is overwhelming that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
For many years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), Greece has been one of my go-to examples for bad government policy. But that’s changed this decade. I wrote earlier this...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
At the risk of stating the obvious, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” is grotesquely disappointing. This chart from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget tells you everything you need to know. We have a federal budget that is far too...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
France is a role model, but not in a good way. It is a stark example of the dangers of excessive government spending. To elaborate, it has the largest fiscal burden of any first-world nation, which necessitates an oppressive tax regime....
by Dan Mitchell | May 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Republicans are going to saddle the country with a massive tax increase, and I’m not referring to Trump’s huge protectionist tax increase on American consumers and producers. Instead, I’m referring to my long-held view that a failure to...
