Bureaucrats are allowed to steal from citizens.
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 Value-Added Tax: A Recipe for More Spending…and More Debt
We should heed the real-world evidence.
Laughing about Taxes and the IRS
“Celebrating” this day with memes and humor.
Vaccines and Cost-Benefit Analysis (and Individual Liberty)
Let adults make their own choices about costs and benefits.
The Pointless Burden of Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Can new evidence lead to more sensible thinking?
Moral Inequality and Immoral Inequality
It is completely wrong to suggest that one person’s flourishing causes harm to others
The Vaccine Passport Debate
Where should libertarians draw the line?
IMF Goes All-In for Class Warfare
The IMF is way off base.
Convergence, Wagner’s Law, and the Path to Prosperity
Poor nations need to copy the policies that rich nations had when they became rich.
The 2nd Amendment and the Individual Right to Gun Ownership
It clearly was designed to protect the individual right to keep and bear arms.