by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I’ve previously pointed out that the so-called War on Poverty is a failure, both for poor people and for taxpayers. My main argument is that poverty was steadily declining throughout American history, but that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2023 | Blogs
This series has reviewed Biden’s dismal record with regards to subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, red tape, and employment. Today, let’s add poverty to the mix. We’ll start with a very depressing...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation, VAT
I have written dozens of columns explaining why a value-added tax would be very bad for the United States, mostly because it would encourage and enable a much bigger burden of government spending. That argument is...
by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
There are three troubling things about the politics of poverty. First, I frequently grouse and complain that some folks on the left don’t actually care about helping poor people. Instead, as explained in my Eighth Theorem of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2023 | Blogs
There are some policy fights that focus on technical disagreements (for instance, how much do deadweight losses increase when tax rates go up?) and other policy fights that involve moral disagreements (for instance, should drugs be...
