by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Last year, I narrated a CF&P video making the case for Medicaid reform. The proposal is very simple: Replicate the success of the welfare reform of the 1990s by block granting the program and giving states full autonomy to figure out how best to provide health...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics, Government Spending
Almost exactly one year ago, I did a post entitled “A Laffer Curve Tutorial” because I wanted readers to have all the arguments and data in one place (and also because it meant I wouldn’t have to track down all the videos when someone asked me for the full set)....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 2, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I mentioned yesterday that Senator Johnson of Wisconsin did a good job at the Senate Budget Committee’s hearing on tax reform. Today, I want to elaborate on two of his points. First, he asked all three of the witnesses what the maximum marginal tax rate on any...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
The overwhelming fiscal policy challenge for America is entitlement programs, as I explain in this set of videos. To protect America from becoming another Greece, we need personal retirement accounts for Social Security. We need vouchers for Medicare. And we need to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 18, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
Demonstrating that he’s probably not a fan of Mitchell’s Golden Rule, Paul Krugman recently asserted that fiscal austerity has failed in the United Kingdom. Citing Keynesian theory and weak economics numbers, he warned about “the austerity doctrine that has dominated...
