by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
One of my favorite charts shows how nations achieve great results when they engage in multi-year periods of spending restraint. The most important benefit is that the burden of government shrinks relative to the private sector, but it’s also worth noting that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 12, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Back in April, I shared a new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity that explained how poor nations can become rich nations by following the recipe of small government and free markets. Now CF&P has released another video. Narrated by Yamila Feccia from...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I spend a lot of my time fretting about how federal spending is going to become an ever-larger (and unsustainable) burden in the future. And I periodically will write about how I wish we still had the very small federal government envisioned by the Founding Fathers...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, States, Taxation
Leftists don’t have many reasons to be cheerful. Global economic developments keep demonstrating (over and over again) that big government and high taxes are not a recipe for prosperity. That can’t be very encouraging for them. They also can’t be very happy about the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I don’t like international bureaucracies that push statist policies. In a perverse way, though, I admire their brassiness. They’re now arguing that higher taxes are good for growth. This isn’t a joke. They never offer any evidence, of course, but it’s now routine to...
