by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Assuming he was able to impose his policy agenda, I think Bernie Sanders – at best – would turn America into Greece. In more pessimistic moments, I fear he would turn the U.S. into Venezuela. The Vermont Senator and his supporters say that’s wrong and that the real...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
As part of my collection of honest leftists, I have a bunch of columns highlighting how some advocates of big government (including, to their credit, Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang) don’t hide from reality. I’m unalterably opposed to their policies, but at least they...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m currently in London for discussions about public policy, particularly the potential for the right kind of free-trade pact between the United States and United Kingdom. I deliberately picked this week for my visit so I also could be here for the British...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I’ve written many columns about Sweden and Denmark over the past 10-plus years, and I’ve also written several times about Norway and Iceland. But I’ve mostly neglected Finland, other than some analysis of the country’s experiment with “basic income” in 2017 and 2018....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 10, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I give Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang credit for a bit of honesty. Both of them have proposals to significantly – indeed, dramatically – expand the burden of government spending, and they actually admit their plans will require big tax increases on lower-income and...
