How do we assess the costs and benefits of various options?
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.
Coronavirus and the Seventh Theorem of Government
More often isn’t better when it comes to government.
Coronavirus and Big Government
There’s an avalanche of reports on how bureaucracy and red tape have been endangering our health.
Economic Lessons from Coronavirus: Government-Subsidized Private Debt Creates Macro Vulnerability
The “unexploded bomb” has detonated.
The Bernie Sanders Paradox
They need wealth to redistribute, but they make it harder to create.
Pandemics, Civil Order, and Gun Control
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A Primer on “Price Gouging”
A lesson to be learned.
Debating the Best Economic Policy Response to Coronavirus
And my biggest fear.
Coronavirus Lessons from Europe
It may be worse in nations where government has the most control over healthcare.
The Adverse Unintended Consequences of Paid Sick Leave
Employers don’t create jobs out of a sense of charity.