by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
The welfare state is a nightmare. Programs such as Medicaid are fiscal catastrophes. The food stamp program is riddled with waste. The EITC is easily defrauded, even sending checks to prisoners. And housing subsidies are a recipe for the worst forms of social...
by Brian Garst | Sep 23, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The relationship between federal and state governments – the division of power between the two levels being known as federalism – is an integral part of the American constitutional system. Federalism uses separate and competing spheres of sovereignty to...
by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m either a total optimist or a glutton for punishment. I recently explained the benefits of “tax havens” for the unfriendly readers of the New York Times. Now I’m defending a different form of tax competition for CNN, another news outlet that leans left. In this...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2013 | Blogs, States
It’s a challenge to be a libertarian in Washington because you have to swim against the tide. The vast majority of people in town are looking for excuses to spend money and amass power, and a small band of us are trying to convince them that the federal government...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve
Art Laffer has a guaranteed spot in the liberty hall of fame because he popularized the common-sense notion that you can’t make any assumptions about tax rates and tax revenue without also figuring out what happens to taxable income. Lot’s of people on the left try to...
