by Dan Mitchell | May 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Excessive government spending is America’s top fiscal problem. To be more specific, poorly designed entitlement programs are leading to an ever-growing spending burden that ultimately will either lead to massive tax increases or a debt crisis. To...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Some traditions are enjoyable, like opening day of the baseball season or celebrating a child’s birthday. Today, we’re going to continue an unpleasant annual tradition (see 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) by looking at the...
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 12, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
In earlier columns in this series (Part I, Part II, and Part III), I’ve shared very depressing data showing that many nations are almost certainly going to be crippled by fiscal crises. Simply stated, politicians in the United States...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 14, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Earlier this year, I cited the European Union’s latest Ageing Report to highlight the fact that private Social Security already exists in nations such as Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Greece, and the Netherlands. But it’s...
