by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I released my First Theorem of Government in 2015 and today I’m going to unveil the 17th iteration in the series. But I’ll confess upfront that I’m doing a bit of recycling. My latest Theorem is very similar to something I shared back in 2014. I...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
As part of my everything-you-need-to-know series, I shared an incomprehensible flowchart showing the ridiculous maze of federal welfare programs back in 2015. Today, let’s look at another visual that captures what’s wrong with the Washington welfare...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
If I want to education someone about the harmful impact of America’s counterproductive welfare state, there are several items I like to share. A complex and crowded flowchart of various Washington programs to redistribute money. A chart...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 14, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
In Part I of this series, I explained that the War on Poverty, launched by Lyndon Johnson and expanded by other profligate presidents, has been bad news for both taxpayers and poor people. More specifically, I shared some academic research showing how it led to a big...
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...
