by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I wrote last November that Germany is in a period of fiscal decay. Over the past eight-plus years, the burden of government spending has grown far too fast, violating the Golden Rule of fiscal policy. As a result, the share of the economy...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
From a big-picture perspective, the Canadian government does the most damage to the nation’s economy with bad tax policy, bad spending policy, bad health policy, bad monetary policy, and other expensive mistakes. But sometimes it is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2024 | Blogs, Europe, Taxation
When I think of the world’s most mistreated taxpayers, a few options come to mind. Cam Newton, the quarterback who faced a marginal tax rate of nearly 200 percent on his Super Bowl bonus. The 8,000 French households who had to surrender more than 100 percent of their...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2024 | Blogs, Education
Yesterday’s column celebrated election results in Texas, where voters ejected several Republican state lawmakers who opposed school choice. This presumably means that Texas next year will add its name to the list of states that give parents the right to pick...
by Dan Mitchell | May 29, 2024 | Blogs, Education
Back in 2013, I asked readers to vote for their favorite political cartoonist. The third-place winner was the unknown person who put together a Wizard-of-Id parody that cleverly illustrated how redistribution programs undermine the work ethic. If I did...
