by Dan Mitchell | Nov 16, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
I regularly cite data about Europe’s sub-par economic outcomes in hopes of driving home the point that the United States should not copy that continent’s approach of onerous fiscal burdens. Which is now a very relevant topic with Biden...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
I don’t know whether to be amused or frustrated, but I can’t help but notice that folks on the left frequently argue that the United States needs to make government bigger in order to “catch up” or “shrink the gap” with Europe. President Biden even has said...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2021 | Blogs, Europe
Let’s look today at one of main arguments for Biden’s tax-and-spend agenda. A column in the New York Times, authored by Spencer Bokat-Lindell, suggests that the United States needs to increase government spending on child care to “shrink the gap”...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Welfare and Entitlements
I freely admit that I don’t like President Biden’s fiscal agenda in part because of my libertarianism. Simply stated, I’m instinctively skeptical when someone wants to expand government. But I’m also an economist who believes in cost-benefit...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending
A couple of days ago, I shared the most-recent data about “actual individual consumption” in nations that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. My goal was to emphasize my oft-stated point about people in the United...
