by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Government is far too big today and it will become an even bigger burden in the future because of demographic changes and poorly designed entitlements. There’s no way to fix this problem without a major effort to shrink the redistributive...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Let’s take another look at America’s extravagant welfare system. In Part I of this series, I shared a map showing which states provided the biggest TANF handouts (just one of many welfare programs). In Part II of this series, I shared a comparison of total...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2025 | Blogs, States
In this 12-second video, Margaret Thatcher is talking about the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, but her warning has universal application. And when I say her warning has universal application, I’m not joking. Politicians generally can’t resist the temptation to...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
Let’s return to our analysis of Argentina’s libertarian President. In Part 1 of this series, I showed how Javier Milei has done a great job shrinking the burden of government spending. In Part II, I investigated how much he might be able to improve Argentina’s ranking...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 2, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
One of Margaret Thatcher’s famous observations was that socialist governments fail because they inevitably run out of other people’s money. If I’m in a pedantic mood, I will nit-pick that statement by pointing out that she should have...
