by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Paul Krugman has butchered numbers when writing about fiscal policy in nations such as France, Estonia, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Today, we’re going to peruse his writings on Denmark. Here’s some of what he wrote earlier this month. Denmark can teach us…about...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 3, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Last September, I shared some very encouraging data showing how extreme poverty dramatically has declined in the developing world. And I noted that this progress happened during a time when the “Washington Consensus” was resulting in “neoliberal” policies (meaning...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
Last week, I shared very grim data, going all the way back to 1880, on the growth of the welfare state. I even claimed that the accompanying graph was the “western world’s most depressing chart” because it showed the dramatic increase in the burden of government...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Last week, I shared a graph showing that there are more guns than people in the United States, and I wrote that it was the “most enjoyable” chart of the year, mostly because it gets my leftist friends so agitated. But I’m more likely to share gloomy visuals. The “most...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
America has a major dependency problem. In recent decades, there’s been a significant increase in the number of working-age adults relying on handouts. This is bad news for poor people and bad news for taxpayers. But it’s also bad news for the nation since it reflects...
