by Dan Mitchell | May 22, 2022 | Blogs, Education
For years, I’ve been explaining that students have been hurt rather than helped by government programs to allegedly make higher education more affordable. How can this be true? For the simple reason that colleges and universities dramatically boosted tuition...
by Dan Mitchell | May 2, 2022 | Blogs, Education
It is very common for politicians to cause a problem with government intervention and then use the problem as an excuse for even bigger government. I call this the lather-rinse-repeat cycle of government failure. And the current controversy over...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 8, 2022 | Blogs
You can actually learn a lot about sensible tax policy by looking at the behavior of professional athletes and sports franchises. Simply stated, people respond to incentives. That’s true in the United States. And it’s true overseas. We...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2021 | Blogs, Europe
Let’s look today at one of main arguments for Biden’s tax-and-spend agenda. A column in the New York Times, authored by Spencer Bokat-Lindell, suggests that the United States needs to increase government spending on child care to “shrink the gap”...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 2, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Unless my memory is more faulty than usual, I don’t think I’ve written a single favorable article about any of Joe Biden’s policies. Which isn’t a surprise considering his knee-jerk embrace of higher taxes and bigger government. But it’s now time to...
