Considering the different experiences of two European nations.
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.
Ranking Presidents: The Awful Economic Record of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He had an upside-down view of freedom.
Protecting Airlines and Other Companies from Government Control
Will self-interested politicians use the crisis as an excuse to shovel goodies to their friends and cronies?
The Worst Coronavirus Policy Proposal: Restoring the Deduction for State and Local Tax Payments
The federal tax code should not subsidize politicians from high-tax states.
Government, Coronavirus, and Libertarianism, Part II
More anti-libertarian nonsense.
Coronavirus and Big Government, Part III
Red tape has hindered the development and deployment of testing in the United States
Eurobonds: A Further Threat to the Long-Run Viability of the European Union
A common European debt instrument is a very bad idea.
Coronavirus and Big Government, Part II
A silver lining to all the bad news.
European Fiscal Crisis, Round 2?
A bloated welfare state is a drag on economic performance.
Washington’s Counterproductive Attack on Stock Buybacks
There’s a bipartisan effort to ban the practice.