by Dan Mitchell | Jan 14, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
In Part I of this series, I explained that the War on Poverty, launched by Lyndon Johnson and expanded by other profligate presidents, has been bad news for both taxpayers and poor people. More specifically, I shared some academic research showing how it led to a big...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I’ve previously pointed out that the so-called War on Poverty is a failure, both for poor people and for taxpayers. My main argument is that poverty was steadily declining throughout American history, but that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote two months ago that President Ronald Reagan did a good job with regards to government spending. I echoed that sentiment in this recent interview. I’ve tried to show Reagan’s success with various charts (see here, here, here, and here)....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Welfare and Entitlements
Time for the annual “best and worst” column, which has been a long-standing tradition (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc). We actually saw some major good news in 2023. Here are my top 3 developments. President Milei in Argentina – The most...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Last month, I shared data on per-capita welfare spending in American states. The big takeaway was that states such as New York and California were spending more tan twice as much as states such as Texas and Florida. And I concluded...
