by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2025 | Blogs
In 2020, I put together a ranking of recent presidents, mostly because I wanted to make the point that partisan labels don’t necessarily matter. Indeed, over the past 60-plus years, Republicans were some of the worst in terms of statist policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
So far in this series, we have looked at what a second Trump presidency might mean for the following three issues. The number of government bureaucrats. Controlling the burden of federal spending. The Department of Government Efficiency. Today, let’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
I used to think the world’s biggest hypocrites were the bureaucrats at international bureaucracies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Monetary Fund. They jet around the world at our expense (in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2024 | Blogs, Economic Growth
About 12 years ago, there was a controversial claim (based in part on some of my analysis) that Obama was the most fiscally conservative president of the 1980-2012 period, which includes Reagan. I crunched the numbers to show where that claim was true...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The 21st century has been bad news for America’s taxpayers. Every president (George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden) has been a big spender. We obviously can’t give Biden a final grade since he has at least two more years in...
