Understanding the consequences of red tape.
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.
OECD Research Acknowledges Big Benefits from Federalism
Sadly, the United States has moved in the wrong direction in recent decades.
Warren Harding’s Anti-Keynesian Solution to a Deep Economic Downturn
How Harding oversaw a very rapid recovery from a deep recession.
The Case Against the Public Option
What we need is a restoration of free markets in health care.
Subsidized Unemployment and Societal Capital
Is this stopping people from getting back to work?
Greece Needs to Expand its Experiment with Supply-Side Economics
How they’re luring well-to-do foreigners to Greece.
Understanding “Public Goods”
The debate over public goods also is a debate about the size of government.
Tax Increases Will Generate More Spending, More Debt, and Less Prosperity
Here’s what actually happens when politicians try to control debt with spending restraint or tax increases.
Comparing Living Standards: The United States vs European Countries and other Developed Nations
The United States still enjoys more economic freedom than most other nations.
Canada’s Fiscal Policy Has Been Deteriorating Under Trudeau, Even Before Coronavirus
He’s spending a lot of money.