Why has sub-Saharan Africa remained the world’s most economically repressed region?
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.
Free Markets, Socialism, and J.D. Vance
Government promises to “make people’s lives better” risk recreating the entitlement logic they claim to oppose.
Capitalism Is A Great Way of Getting Rid of Poor People (by Lifting Them Out of Poverty)
As capitalism has spread and trade has expanded, poverty is becoming a smaller and smaller problem.
The Trump Administration’s Progress on Food Stamps
If states such as California, Illinois, and New York want to fund junk food, they should be doing it with their own funds.
Republican Socialism, Part II
Just imagine the damage a future leftist president could do now that Trump has paved the way.
Blue State Dysfunction
How bureaucracy compounds tragedy: Wildfire survivors face a second disaster.
The United States vs. Europe, Part VI
American workers earn more, these policies are why.
Inequality and Prosperity, Part II
Gini coefficients? Should we care?
A Primer on Government Spending and Red Ink, Part II
Government spending is the disease, but persistent deficits can turn into fiscal crisis.
A Primer on Government Spending and Red Ink, Part I
America’s fiscal crisis begins with excessive government spending, and why higher taxes won’t end it.