by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Let’s take another look at America’s extravagant welfare system. In Part I of this series, I shared a map showing which states provided the biggest TANF handouts (just one of many welfare programs). In Part II of this series, I shared a comparison of total...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2024 | Blogs, Free Market
Every previous column in this series (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and Part VI) has featured a video. I’m going to break that pattern today and instead start with this profoundly important tweet. The first part of the tweet...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 22, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
There is going to be a major battle over tax policy in 2025, triggered in part by an end-of-year deadline to extend (or not extend) major portions of the 2017 Trump tax reforms. But lawmakers presumably will also be dealing with some of Trump’s new proposals,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
In my two-part series on how best to reduce poverty (see here and here), I argued that the goal should be to help poor people climb the economic ladder, not to make indolence a comfortable way of life. Unfortunately, many Republicans and Democrats...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
As I wrote in both 2020 and earlier this year, Kamala Harris is worse than Joe Biden on economic issues. Heck, based on an analysis of spending proposals in the 2020 race, she’s even worse than Bernie Sanders. What worries me most is that...
