by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The 21st Century has been bad news for advocates of limited government. Every president over the past two decades has been a big spender. Including Joe Biden. Yes, there was a brief dip in the spending burden in 2022, but that was only because of...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
Two of the worst states for tax policy are California and New York. They have punitive income tax rates, high sales taxes, and myriad other ways of diverting money from the productive sector of the economy to finance bloated...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The best evidence for spending caps is the comparison between the United States and Switzerland. Even since Swiss voters overwhelmingly imposed their “debt brake” on politicians 20 years ago, total government spending in Switzerland has increased by an...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I have repeatedly explained that spending restraint is good fiscal policy. And I have specifically explained that you achieve this goal by limiting spending so that it grows slower than the productive sector of the economy. A fringe...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Yesterday’s column pointed out why supporters of a global corporate tax cartel are misguided. Today, I’m going to admit that I made a mistake. Not yesterday, but two years earlier. Back in 2021, I put together a list of winners and losers from the proposed...
