by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2022 | Blogs, Uncategorized
My views on gridlock were fully captured in the title of a 2015 column, which stated that divided government was “Better than the Alternative of Expanding Government.” And I followed up with a 2020 column that showed that spending restraint was more...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Most Republicans and Democrats have a self-interested view of divided government. They obviously prefer if their party controls everything. After all, that’s how Republicans got tax reform in 2017 and it’s how Democrats got Obamacare in 2010. But they also like...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs
The pro-statism crowd routinely argues that we need more government. Every so often, though, one of them inadvertently stumbles on the truth. But they then refuse to draw the logical conclusion. For instance. One of President Obama’s health appointees noted that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2012 | Blogs, Economics
The new unemployment numbers show a joblessness rate of 8.3 percent. From a political perspective, this is good news for the White House. Even though the Obama Administration projected that the unemployment rate today would be about 2-percentage points lower if the...
