by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
When I’m asked for a basic tutorial on fiscal policy, I normally share my four videos on the economics of government spending and my primer on fundamental tax reform. But this six-minute interview may be a quicker introduction to spending issues since I had the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2019 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
According to Freedom in the 50 States, which we reviewed a couple of days ago, New Jersey is in the bottom 10 and has been moving in the wrong direction. This dismal ranking is not an anomaly. New Jersey also is in the bottom 10 of states according to Economic Freedom...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
I did not like Bill Clinton’s 1993 class-warfare tax hike, and I also opposed Barack Obama’s 2012 fiscal-cliff tax increase on the so-called rich. But those were incremental measures. Today’s leftist politicians have much more grandiose schemes, such as 70 percent tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The Congressional Budget Office just released it’s annual Budget and Economic Outlook, and that means I’m going to do something that I first did in 2010 and most recently did last year. I’m going to show that it’s actually rather simple to balance the budget...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
I don’t care about the current shutdown battle, but I still feel compelled to add my two cents when people make silly arguments about the economy suffering because government is temporarily spending less money. This is actually a two-part debate. From a microeconomic...
