by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Sweden is an odd country, at least from the perspective of public policy. On the positive side, it has private Social Security accounts. It has an admirable school choice system. And it was a good role model of spending restraint back in the 1990s. But on the negative...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Bad ideas definitely have the ability to cross borders. The income tax first appeared in England, on a temporary basis during the Napoleanic wars and then permanently in 1842. It then spread like a cancer to other parts of the world, eventuallyreaching – and plaguing...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Welfare and Entitlements
Since I’m in the United Kingdom, it’s appropriate to announce that another Briton has been elected to the Moocher Hall of Fame. Ms. Kay Bird deserves this “honor” because it takes a very reprehensible entitlement mentality to brag about taking a global holiday with...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
The Obama Administration has already announced a bunch of tax increases that will be part of the President’s soon-to-be-released budget. But, in a remarkable development, the White House has preemptively thrown in the towel and said that it will no longer pursue a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
There’s a famous quote, commonly attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, about the American character. America is great because America is good. If America ever stops being good, it will stop being great. What makes this quote so popular (even though Wikipedia says it’s...
