by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I already shared my thoughts about the value-added tax when discussing fiscal policy with an economist at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. Here’s some of what I said about tax progressivity and the welfare state. The bottom line is that the American tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
To show that living standards are much higher in the United States than they are in Europe, I periodically share OECD data on average individual consumption (2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, and 2022). All of which implies that European...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
As part of my everything-you-need-to-know series, I shared an incomprehensible flowchart showing the ridiculous maze of federal welfare programs back in 2015. Today, let’s look at another visual that captures what’s wrong with the Washington welfare...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Since this is my last full day in Sweden, I want to build upon my previous two columns (on long-run tax policy and pandemic spending policy). We’ll start with this video explaining that Sweden is not socialist. Johan Norberg is correct. Sweden does not...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
If I want to education someone about the harmful impact of America’s counterproductive welfare state, there are several items I like to share. A complex and crowded flowchart of various Washington programs to redistribute money. A chart...
