by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2017 | Blogs, States
Perhaps because there’s no hope for genuine Obamacare repeal and limited hope for sweeping tax reform, I’m having to look outside of Washington for good news. I wrote the other day about the very successful tax reforms in North Carolina. So now let’s travel to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Since it is the single-largest government program, not only in the United States but also the entire world, it’s remarkable that Social Security isn’t getting much attention from fiscal policy wonks. Sure, Obamacare is a more newsworthy issue because of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 8, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
The most depressing data about America’s economy is not the top tax rate, the regulatory burden, or the level of wasteful of government spending. Those numbers certainly are grim, but I think they’re not nearly as depressing as America’s demographic outlook. As you...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 16, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
As a supporter of genuine capitalism, which means the right of contract and the absence of coercion, I don’t think there should be any policies that help or hinder unions. The government should simply be a neutral referee that enforces contracts and upholds the rule...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 22, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
One of the challenges of good entitlement reform (or even bad entitlement reform) is that recipients think they’ve “earned” benefits. If you tell them that programs such as Medicare are unsustainable and need to be changed, some of them suspect you’re trying to...
