by Dan Mitchell | Sep 19, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care
Maybe it’s my snarky sense of humor, but I greatly enjoy when statists accidentally promote free markets and small government. It seems to happens quite a bit at the New York Times. A New York Times columnist, for instance, pushed for a tax-hiking fiscal agreement...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 18, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Almost everyone in Washington is talking about the recent GOP debate. I sent out a few tweets as I watched, and my main after-the-fact observation is that there was very little discussion about the ever-growing burden of government spending, which is America’s most...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 15, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Is “supply-side economics” a bad thing or good thing? It depends on what one means by the phrase. If it means that all tax cuts are self financing or that low tax burdens are the sole key to prosperity, then critics are right about it being a form of “voodoo...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Is “supply-side economics” a bad thing or good thing? It depends on what one means by the phrase. If it means that all tax cuts are self financing or that low tax burdens are the sole key to prosperity, then critics are right about it being a form of “voodoo...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’m a big fan of fiscal data. In part this is because I’m a policy wonk, but I also like budget numbers because they generally provide strong evidence for my philosophical belief in small government and spending restraint. For instance, I enjoy sharing my table...
