by Dan Mitchell | May 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Excessive government spending is America’s top fiscal problem. To be more specific, poorly designed entitlement programs are leading to an ever-growing spending burden that ultimately will either lead to massive tax increases or a debt crisis. To...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Let’s take another look at America’s extravagant welfare system. In Part I of this series, I shared a map showing which states provided the biggest TANF handouts (just one of many welfare programs). In Part II of this series, I shared a comparison of total...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Building on the success of state-level reforms in Kansas, Maine, Wisconsin, Alabama, and Georgia, the Trump Administration has proposed to tighten rules that impose work requirements on childless and able-bodied adults who receive food stamps. Since I want to get...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Federalism is the gold standard for reforming redistribution programs. This was the approach used in the very successful Clinton-era welfare reform, and it should be replicated for other means-tested programs. The core argument is that the federal government does a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 11, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
The Moocher Hall of Fame highlights people who have some special trait that sets them apart from normal welfare recipients. They may get on the list because they are undeservingly rich, malignantly evil, incredibly entitled, or downright weird. I also have a terror...
