by Dan Mitchell | Nov 4, 2023 | Blogs, Free Market
Other than believing in Israel’s right to self-defense (as I wrote back in 2010, “What would you do if you were an Israeli?”), I don’t have any special insights about the conflict in the Middle East. But I am willing to pontificate about economic policy in...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 3, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Supply Side, Taxation
Yesterday’s column reviewed a new academic study which found that Trump’s corporate tax reforms had a very positive impact on investment, which means more growth and higher wages for the American economy. The study, which was written by Gabriel Chodorow-Reich...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 2, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Supply Side, Taxation
I’m very critical of bad policies we got during the Trump years, most notably profligacy and protectionism. But I shower praise on the good policies, such as the 2017 tax legislation (especially the lower corporate tax rate and...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 1, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
In 2014, I wrote about the Italian bureaucrat who worked only 15 days over a nine-year period. Earlier this year, I wrote about the more industrious (relatively speaking, of course) Italian bureaucrat who worked four years over a 24-year period....
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 31, 2023 | Blogs, Free Market
At the risk of understatement, our friends on the left are fixated on equality. If they were talking about equality of opportunity, or equality before the law, that would be great. Unfortunately, they want equality of outcomes. Which...
