Are Trump’s policies helping or hurting ordinary people?

Dan Mitchell
Daniel J. Mitchell is the President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation. Dr. Mitchell advocates limited government and fundamental tax reform, and is the nation’s leading opponent of tax harmonization schemes developed by the Brussels-based European Union, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations.
In addition to fiscal policy, Dr. Mitchell is a trenchant observer of economic developments and an expert on Social Security reform – particularly the fiscal policy impact of reform and what the US can learn from other nations that have created personal retirement accounts.
The Rahn Curve: A Bigger Welfare State = Less Prosperity
More evidence that higher government spending is correlated with less prosperity.
Another Feel-Good Map for 2025
This shows amazing progress.
Bipartisan Bad Economics
This article appeared at FEE.
Voters Sometimes Like Big Government…When Someone Else Is Paying
Most American’s aren’t keen to pay much more.
HFI25: Switzerland Remains the World’s Freest Nation
This is hardly a surprise.
Demographic Decline, Part II: America’s Unaffordable Young-to-Old Welfare State
This startling chart is grim news for working age Americans.
Excessive Government Spending in Western Nations
OECD acknowledges that excessive spending is a problem for OECD nations.
Demographic Decline, Part I: Baby Subsidies Are an Ineffective Response
Can government policy even do anything?
Can the European Union Be Salvaged?
The European Union does not defend these Western values.










