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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 Boring but Important Topic of Carry Forwards and Net Operating Losses
How should we account for business losses?
The Economic Consequences of Expanding Pay-as-You-Go Social Security Systems
Politicians in Washington have been trying to buy votes with proposals to expand Social Security.
Using Coronavirus as an Excuse for More E.U. Centralization and Redistribution
There’s a long-held desire by the left to turn the E.U. into a transfer union.
New York vs. Florida, Round #4
New York’s problems didn’t start with the coronavirus.
Coronavirus, Federal Spending, and Media Innumeracy
The fantasy of “underinvestment” in government.
Restoring Fiscal Sanity, Post-Coronavirus
Red ink is exploding this year.
The WTO Should Be Preserved, but Bilateral Free-Trade Pacts Are the Way Forward for Future Liberalization
Some surprising opposition to the WTO.
Coronavirus and the Failure of Big Government: A Closer Look at the CDC
Is the CDC a monumental failure?
What Lessons Can the Country Learn from California’s Red-Tape Nightmare?
People are voting with their feet.