by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
I created the Anti-Convergence Club so I could have concrete examples of how more economic liberty translates into higher living standards. In effect, it’s the data-driven version of my Never-Answered Question. Yesterday, I provided another...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2022 | Blogs
I’m a big believer in looking at long-run trends, particularly whether countries are experiencing convergence of divergence with regards to per-capita economic output. Poor nations normally should grow faster than rich nations, so we can...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2022 | Blogs, States
I wrote a few days ago about how some New York Democratic politicians have awakened to the fact that it’s not a good idea to be too greedy. After all, if taxes are excessively high, the geese with the golden eggs can simply fly away – and...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 23, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
I applauded when Joe Biden used clever tax strategies to reduce his (apparently unpatriotic) tax bill to the IRS. I also applauded when Bill and Hillary Clinton engaged in clever tax avoidance, as well as John Kerry and Gov....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 22, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I worry about big tax increases because of America’s grim long-run fiscal outlook. The video clip is less than two minutes (taken from this longer discussion with Fergus Hodgson), but I can summarize my key point in just one very important sentence Anybody...
