Are people corrupted by government or do corrupt people gravitate to government?
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.
Whitewashing East Germany’s Stalinist Dictatorship
Not everybody is happy that the communism wound up on the ash heap of history.
Education Bureaucrat: Choice for Me, Equal Mediocrity for Thee
This is truly reprehensible.
How Can the New York Times Write about the Failure of Venezuela and not Mention Socialism?
A shocking omission.
America’s Best and Worst Governors
A comprehensive assessment of the nation’s governors.
The Most Important Ballot Initiative of 2020
Save the flat tax!
Correcting Pope Francis…Again
The Pope gives erroneous clichés rather than helpful analysis.
Milton Friedman on Taxation
The master was right.
Milton Friedman on Spending
How we counteract a disturbing trend.
Do Small Countries and Small States Have Lower Levels of Red Tape?
An interesting relationship between red tape and population.