by Dan Mitchell | Apr 9, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
I’ve often complained that government-created third-party payer is the main problem with America’s healthcare system, and I was making that point well before Obamacare was imposed upon the country. The issue is very straightforward. In a genuine free market,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
What’s the most important factor for economic progress? There are several possible answers to that question. We can take a big-picture view and argue that the key is free markets and small government, and there certainly is lots of evidence in favor of this assertion...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Education
I’ve written many times about the shortcomings of government schools at the K-12 level. We spend more on our kids than any other nation, yet our test scores are comparatively dismal. And one of my points, based on this very sobering chart from the Cato...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 4, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
A few days ago, I cited some research by an economics professor at the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!), who calculated that we would have a big budget surplus today if Washington lawmakers had simply maintained Bill Clinton’s final budget, adjusting it only for...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I’m not a fan of the IRS or it’s Commissioner, a partisan Democrat named John Koskinen. The agency has become politicized, interfering with America’s political process. Needless to say, I’m not shedding tears that the bureaucracy is no longer getting big budget...
