by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, States
Politicians from New York want states to get a big bailout from Uncle Sam. I explained earlier this month that this would be a bad idea. Simply stated, the Empire State is in big trouble because it has a bloated government, not because of the coronavirus. Probably...
by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When I write enough columns with the same underlying point, I sometimes create a special page to highlight the theme, such as the “Bureaucrat Hall of Fame” and “Poverty Hucksters.” I may have to do something similar for people who assert that America’s response to the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The good news is that there will be a record reduction next year in the burden of government spending. Unfortunately, the bad news is that this reduction will only occur because of gigantic spending increases this year. In this webinar, I explain how fiscal policy is...
by Dan Mitchell | May 9, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’ve warned that the budgetary impact of the coronavirus may trigger another fiscal crisis in Europe. Especially Italy. But what about the United States? Will we reach a point, as Margaret Thatcher famously warned, of running out of other people’s money? We probably...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
A couple of weeks ago, I debunked a remarkably anti-empirical column by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. He claimed that America’s response to the coronavirus was hampered because government is too small, yet the nations he cited as successful role models actually...
