by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 24, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Hill’s Congress Blog on March 24, 2015. President Barack Obama’s long-standing willingness to use taxpayer monies to promote favored industries, companies and well-connected political donors has usually been met with opposition...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending
To save the nation from a future Greek-style fiscal meltdown, we should reform entitlements. But as part of the effort to restore limited, constitutional government, we also should shut down various departments that deal with issues that shouldn’t be handled by the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 14, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
The modern welfare state is a disaster. But rather than go into lengthy details, let’s simply look at some very powerful images (click for enlarged view). Probably the most damning evidence is that the poverty rate in America was steadily falling after World War II....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Energy, Government Spending, Taxation
One of the very first “accomplishments” of the new GOP majority in Congress was to approve a piece of corporate welfare to subsidize terrorism insurance for big companies. But I tried to overlook that development since there were a few modest reforms included with the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, States
I’m a big fan of federalism for both policy and political reasons. Returning programs to the states is the best way of dealing with counterproductive income-redistribution policies such as welfare, Medicaid, and food stamps. Federalism is also the right way of...
