by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2017 | Blogs, States
When I write about the actions of state governments, it’s usually to highlight a specific bad policy. As you can imagine, states like California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey give me a never-ending amount of material. But I frequently run across...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, States, Taxation
Here’s what I wrote last month about the fiscal situation in Illinois. Illinois is a mess. Taxes and spending already are too high, and huge unfunded liabilities point to an even darker future. Simply stated, politicians and government employee unions have created an...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, States, Taxation
Leftists don’t have many reasons to be cheerful. Global economic developments keep demonstrating (over and over again) that big government and high taxes are not a recipe for prosperity. That can’t be very encouraging for them. They also can’t be very happy about the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, States, Taxation
The federal income tax is corrosive and destructive. It’s almost as if a group of malicious people decided to deliberately design a system that imposes maximum damage while also allowing the most corruption. The economic damage is not only the result of high tax rates...
by Dan Mitchell | May 7, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
What word best describes the actions of government? Would it be greed? How about thuggery? Or cronyism? Writing for Reason, Eric Boehm has a story showing that “all of the above” may be the right answer. At first it seems like a story about government greed. When Mats...
