by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
The tax-and-transfer welfare state is in deep trouble. I explained last year that the United States faces a very serious long-run challenge. Many of our entitlement programs were created based on the assumption that we would always have an expanding population, as...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2017 | Blogs, Economic Growth
As I peruse the news, I periodically see headlines that are misleading in some fashion. And if the headline is sufficiently off-key or bizarre, I feel compelled to grouse. A disappointingly inaccurate headline about the capital sinking into the sea. A grossly...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 15, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Which state gets the biggest share of its budget from the federal government? Is it California, the left’s bizarre alternative universe? Is it Illinois, the poster child for big-government excess? Nope, not even close. As a matter of fact, those two jurisdictions are...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Since I can’t even keep track of schools of thought on the right (libertarians, traditional conservatives, neocons, reform conservatives, compassionate conservatives, Trump-style populists, etc), I’m not going to pretend to know what’s happening on the left. But it...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
If there was an award for the most dramatic political development of 2016, it would presumably be the election of Donald Trump. If there was an award for the best policy reform of 2016, my vote would be the constitutional spending cap in Brazil. If there was an award...
