by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Last decade, three things made me optimistic about the United Kingdom. A lengthy period of spending restraint from 2010-2019. Voters chose in 2016 to escape the European Union. Boris Johnson was elected to deliver Brexit in 2019. Sadly, I was hopelessly naive. I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I urged Tea Party Republicans to defund PBS and NPR in 2011 and then made the same recommendation to Trump in the first year of his first term. My argument, as captured by this cartoon, has nothing to do with left-wing bias. Instead, I favor...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Here are three options when contemplating Germany’s biggest economic challenge. Is it the growing burden of government, which likely will worsen over time because of demographic factors? Is it extreme environmental policies that have spiked energy costs and undermined...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In 2016, I criticized the International Monetary Fund for that bureaucracy’s accurate but hypocritical attack on Trump’s protectionism. The IMF constantly endorses higher taxes on wages, saving, investment, and other forms of productive...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
At the start of the year, I pointed out how politicians used the pandemic as an excuse to increase the long-run trend line of government spending. Today, let’s look at how one component of the federal budget has contributed to America’s perilous fiscal...
