by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
What do Joe Biden and Donald Trump have in common? Speaking earlier this year to the Mackinac Center in Michigan, I warned they both implicitly favor massive tax increases on ordinary households. If you don’t want to spend two minutes watching the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Two years ago, I took an online budget quiz put together by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The results said I was a “minimalist,” which makes a lot of sense. Today, I took another budget quiz, this one put together by...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2023 | Blogs
CF&P has a video on spending caps that focuses on international evidence, such as Switzerland’s debt brake. Here’s a video from the American Legislative Exchange Council that that looks at a successful domestic spending cap – Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I rarely write about the national debt for the simple reason that it is far more important to focus on the burden of government spending. After all, improper spending saps economic vitality, regardless of whether it is financed...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I have been very pessimistic in recent years about the United Kingdom. Now, having just finished giving speeches in Bristol and London, I’m even more pessimistic. The core problem is that the burden of government spending has expanded dramatically in recent...
