Finland seems like a great country, but we shouldn’t copy it.

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.
A Quiz to Identify Your Ideological Perspective
See if you like your results.
Class-Warfare Taxation, Government Spending, and Economic Growth
Some folks on the left today are not honest about these trade-offs
Redistribution Programs and Work Requirements
Are work requirements better than the status quo?
Government Schools, the New York Times, and the Butterfield Effect
To help me follow policy developments, I get 30-plus daily emails from various news outlets and institutions, and I scroll through these messages to see what I should be reading. Given my interest in fiscal policy, I’m always on the lookout for articles on tax…
Should Government Bureaucracies Be Relocated Outside the Beltway?
These writers have competing takes.
A Primer on “Full Expensing” of Business Investment
The issue boils down to whether there should be a tax penalty on new investment.
Measuring the Impact of 20 Years of Socialism in Venezuela
The nation is an economic disaster.
The Value-Added Tax Is a Precursor for a Bigger Burden of Government Spending
Politicians were wrong when they said a VAT would keep debt under control.
The IMF Proposes Ever-Increasing Tax Hikes for Japan
The IMF is more than happy to rationalize a bad approach.










