Ever since Trump imposed big tax increases on global trade, job numbers have gotten worse.
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.
Trump’s Shameful Economic Illiteracy
Rather than undo his own mistakes, he has chosen to engage in demagoguery.
Americans Are Getting Richer, Part IV
Yet the United States could be growing even faster.
Trump Pulls Out of 66 International Bureaucracies, Which is a Positive Development, but Why Remain in the Worst Ones?
The two worst bureaucracies emerged unscathed.
The United States Has the Developed World’s Most “Progressive” Tax System
The rich still bear the biggest burden of tax in the United States.
Tax-Motivated Domestic Migration, Part II
How people are voting with their feet.
Libertarian Tourism in Argentina…and Latin American Liberty
Helping “Milei-ism” spread around the world.
The Tradeoff Between Tax Progressivity and Economic Output, Part II
The damage of “progressive” tax rates
Three Potential Options for Venezuela
Looking at the costs and benefits of a few potential outcomes.
Zohran Mamdani, Part I: The “Caviar Communist” Openly Embraces Collectivism
Your eyes and ears are not deceiving you.