by Dan Mitchell | Dec 18, 2022 | Blogs, Education, Taxation
Since my specialty in economics is fiscal policy, I’m used to wonky (and perhaps boring) debates about topics such as marginal tax rates, Keynesianism, and the Armey-Rahn Curve. But there’s also a moral component to fiscal...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2022 | Blogs, Education
A big advantage of living in a constitutional republic is that individual rights are protected from “tyranny of the majority.” Assuming courts are doing their job, it doesn’t matter if 90 percent of voters support restrictions on free...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Regulations, Taxation
Because politicians have built-in incentives to expand the size and scope of government, it is very rare to find elected officials who actually deliver more liberty. Some of them will offer rhetoric, of course, but very few of them produce results....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2022 | Blogs, Education
When I write about government schools, I often revise Winston Churchill’s famous quote about the Royal Air Force so that it reads “never have so many paid so much to achieve so little.” That’s because American taxpayers have been dumping ever-larger...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2022 | Blogs, Education
Since teacher unions care more about lining their pockets and protecting their privileges rather than improving education, I’ll never feel any empathy for bosses like Randi Weingarten. That being said, the past couple of years have been bad news...
