by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m agnostic about President’s Trump’s budget. It has some good proposals to save money and control the burden of government spending, but after he got rolled by the big spenders earlier this year, I wonder if he’s serious about tackling wasteful government....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
There was some genuinely good news in 2016, which is more than I can say for 2015 (my “best” development for that year was some polling data, followed by some small-ball tinkering). Though the good news for 2016 was mostly overseas. Here are the four things from...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Learning from the tremendous success of welfare reform during the Clinton Administration, the entire Washington-based welfare state should be junked. It’s a complicated and costly mess that traps poor people in dependency while ripping off taxpayers and creating very...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
Since it’s very likely that Hillary Clinton will be our next President, I’m mentally preparing myself for upcoming fights over her agenda of bigger government and class warfare. But the silver lining to this dark cloud is that I don’t think I’ll be distracted by also...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, States, Welfare and Entitlements
For a wide range of reasons, the federal government should get out of the redistribution racket. Welfare programs are costly, but they’re also not among the enumerated powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution. But for those who don’t care whether...
