We have forty centuries of experience demonstrating that price controls don’t work.
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.
Breonna Taylor Is another Casualty in the Foolish War on Drugs
The lather-rinse-repeat cycle of government failure.
Third-Party Payer Hurts American Healthcare
No wonder healthcare is more expensive in the United States.
America’s Fiscal Problem Is Spending, not Red Ink
The burden of government spending is on an upward trajectory.
Blue State Blues in California
The state suffers high taxes and poor services.
Convergence and Capitalism
The “Washington Consensus” for pro-market policies generated good results.
The Case Against Government Schools
Hard to argue with the data.
Fiscal Insanity from New Jersey
Politicians from the Garden State are very innovative at coming up with ways to make a bad situation even worse.
Biden’s Policy to Increase the Tax Burden on Investment, Wages, and Job Creation
Biden has embraced class-warfare taxation.
Does Trump Deserve Credit for Strong 2019 Economic Data?
The numbers for 2019 were spectacularly good.