by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Whenever I discuss education policy with one of my leftist friends, it usually follows the same script. They’ll ask whether I want good education for kids. I’ll say yes. They’ll then say we should devote more money to government schools. I then show them this powerful...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2017 | Blogs, Education, Government Spending, Government Waste
The story of the private sector is that competition generates ever-more output in ways that bring ever-higher living standards to ever-greater numbers of people. By contrast, the story of the government is inefficiency and waste as interest groups figure out how to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending
While I have great fondness for some of the visuals I’ve created over the years (especially “two wagons” and “apple harvesting“), I confess that none of my creations have ever been as clear and convincing as the iconic graph on education spending and education...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2016 | Blogs, Education
I’ve explained many times that an economy’s wealth and output depend on the quantity and quality of labor and capital and how effectively those two factors of production are combined. Let’s look today on the labor portion of that formula. And since I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 15, 2015 | Blogs, Education
Our friends who believe in big government have this funny habit of self-exempting themselves from the bad policies that they impose on the rest of the population. Statists are very opposed to so-called tax havens, for instance, because they don’t want there to be any...
