by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
I’m not a fan of the government-distorted health system in the United States. Various laws and programs from Washington have created a massive problem with third-party payer, which makes America’s system very expensive and inefficient....
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
After the people of the United Kingdom voted to escape the European Union, I wondered whether the Conservative Party would “find a new Margaret Thatcher” to enact pro-market reforms and thus “take advantage of a golden opportunity” to “prosper in a post-Brexit...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
The great Margaret Thatcher famously observed that the problem with socialism is that governments eventually “run out of other people’s money.” But they can do a lot of damage before they reach that point. We know from U.S. experience that Republicans...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2021 | Taxation
Two years ago, I wrote about how two former Prime Ministers in the United Kingdom, David Cameron and Theresa May, did a very good job of restraining spending. On average, spending increased by only 1.8 percent per year last decade, which helped to...
by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
When making the case against socialism, I’ve pointed out how that coercive ideology is an evil and immoral failure. But maybe the best argument is contained in this very short video that was shared by a group of Tory activists in the United Kingdom. Ms. Badenoch is...
