by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
What’s America’s worst city? According to some recent research, it’s Oakland. And a few years before, another expert picked Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario in California. But what if we look at major cities? Possible contestants include San...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Back in 2020, I created a simple visual to explain potential options for Social Security. My goal was to help readers understand that politicians have the ability to make the current system better, but they also could make it even worse. But I’m not...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 27, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The main goal of fiscal policy should be to shrink the burden of government spending, not to balance the budget or lower debt. However, those two goals are not in conflict if policy makers pursue good policy. The evidence is overwhelming that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
At the risk of stating the obvious, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” is grotesquely disappointing. This chart from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget tells you everything you need to know. We have a federal budget that is far too...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
France is a role model, but not in a good way. It is a stark example of the dangers of excessive government spending. To elaborate, it has the largest fiscal burden of any first-world nation, which necessitates an oppressive tax regime....
