by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
I realize that we’re in the midst of an important tax battle in Washington and that I should probably be writing about likely amendments to the Senate tax bill. The bad Rubio-Lee proposal to increase refundable tax credits (i.e., redistribution spending that...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2017 | Blogs, Europe
Since I’m in London for a couple of speeches, I’ve taken advantage of this opportunity to make sure I’m up to speed on Brexit. Regular readers may recall that I supported the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union. Simply stated, the European Union is a slowly...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I wrote yesterday about a very depressing development in the United Kingdom. Politicians in that country – including some supposed fiscal conservatives – are contemplating a big expansion in the burden of government spending in order to give pay hikes to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
One of my favorite charts shows how nations achieve great results when they engage in multi-year periods of spending restraint. The most important benefit is that the burden of government shrinks relative to the private sector, but it’s also worth noting that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2017 | Blogs, Health Care
Writing about the sub-par single-payer healthcare system in the United Kingdom, Paul Krugman infamously claimed that,“In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We’ve all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these...
