by Dan Mitchell | Apr 8, 2026 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I constantly remind people that government spending is the most important fiscal variable, not deficits/debt. After all, it is government spending that drains resources from the productive sector of the economy, regardless of whether it is financed...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2026 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I previously wrote about people moving from high-tax states to low-tax states. Here’s a new table showing how people are voting with their feet. The above table is my adaption from a report by U-Haul. The truck rental company analyzes the flow of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
As shown by the lack of spending restraint in Trump’s absurdly named One Big Beautiful Bill. there are plenty of big-government Republicans in Washington. At the risk of understatement, they are not complying with the Golden Rule of...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2025 | Blogs, Education
I admit to being confused. Should my feel-good map of the year be the one involving the spread of school choice or the ones involving the shift to lower tax rates? For today, it’s going to be school choice. Here’s a map from Corey DeAngelis...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, States
In Part XIII of my series comparing Texas and California (previous seven editions can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), I shared data showing that the burden of state spending was growing much faster...
