by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
My Fourteenth Theorem of Government explains that when government intervenes for the ostensible purpose of providing help to poor people in the short run, it is all but inevitable that such policies will hurt poor people in the long run. It...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2023 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation
In 2020 and 2021, I wrote a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) about Biden’s class-warfare tax agenda. And I also wrote a series of columns about some of his worst ideas. Biden wants America to have the developed world’s highest...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
The first four rounds of my New York vs. Florida contest (available here, here, here, and here) largely focused on Florida’s superior economic policies and superior economic results. So you won’t be surprised to learn that Round #5 continues that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote a two-part series (here and here) about Donald Trump supporting massive middle-class tax increases. Trump does not admit that is his policy, of course, but that is an unavoidable outcome since he opposes entitlement reform. In the interest of fairness and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2023 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
While I have profound worries about the future of fiscal policy, I wonder if developments in monetary policy are an even greater threat to individual liberty. More specifically, I’ve written a five-part series about governments and their “War Against...
