by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
Maybe I’m biased because I mostly work on fiscal policy, but it certainly seems feasible to come up with rough estimates for the damage caused by onerous taxes and excessive spending. On a personal level, for instance, we have a decent idea of how much the government...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is once again pushing for bigger and more intrusive in the United States. The international bureaucracy’s “Economic Survey” of the United States reads like it...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 28, 2014 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics, Taxation
I wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal last week about the policy debate over whether it’s better to lower tax rates or to provide targeted tax cuts for parents. Since this meant I was wading into a fight between so-called reform conservatives (or “reformicons”)...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
I like to think that very few people despise Obamacare more than me. I don’t like Obamacare because it’s a fiscal boondoggle. I don’t like Obamacare because it’s bad healthcare policy. I don’t like Obamacare because it generated an embarrassingly bad decision by the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Europe
We’re going to touch on two topics today. I realize that not that many readers care about Greek economic policy, but sometimes other nations can teach us very important lessons. For better orworse. And in the case of Greece, the lesson is that government intervention...
