by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2025 | Blogs, Education, Government Spending
The United States has a big problem. In recent years, I’ve looked at how two cities (Los Angeles and Chicago) dramatically boosted spending on government schools, yet in both cases educational outcomes declined. I also wrote about similar evidence, on a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 2, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
As noted in my First Theorem of Government, politics is a largely a scam, a way for well-connected insiders to obtain undeserved wealth. With taxpayers, consumers, and businesses bearing the cost, of course. Unfortunately (but perhaps...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 28, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I often get asked when the United States will suffer a Greek-style fiscal crisis. My answer is always “I don’t know,” though I freely admit we are heading in that direction. My lack of specificity isn’t merely because economists are lousy...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Government Spending, Taxation
I normally have a Thanksgiving-themed column every year (2024, 2023, 2022, etc, etc), but I just saw something so irritating from the pro-tax crowd at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that I’m going to break with tradition....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Two months ago, I wrote a column about Italy’s fiscal deterioration and included a chart showing the country moving in the wrong direction, both in the past few years as well as since the turn of the century. Let’s now do the same thing, based on IMF...
