by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I released my First Theorem of Government in 2015 and today I’m going to unveil the 17th iteration in the series. But I’ll confess upfront that I’m doing a bit of recycling. My latest Theorem is very similar to something I shared back in 2014. I...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Not everyone has appreciated my efforts to promote economic liberty over the past 40 years. The most common attack is “you don’t care about the poor” even though I’m pushing for the only economic system that has a track record of successfully...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
Guided by the principles of good tax policy, I have mostly focused on two important provisions when writing about Trump’s 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA). Reducing the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, thus improving incentives...
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Earlier this month, I wrote about Social Security’s huge fiscal problems, followed the next week by a column correcting some myths about the program that were disseminated by the Washington Post. Today, let’s cross the Atlantic Ocean because...
by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Jacobin is an explicitly socialist publication that fortunately has very little influence outside of the Crazy Bernie crowd. As far as I can recall, I’ve only cited its work four times. In 2019, I gave it backhanded praise for admitting that the...
