“Less damaging” is not the same as “no damage.”
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.
The Three Most Important Takeaways from CBO’s New Long-Run Fiscal Forecast
Here’s what you need to know.
The Destructive Economics of Wealth Taxation
Taxing savings and investment is economic suicide.
Air Travel and Taxation: A Case Study of Statism in the European Union
They hate that consumers are enjoying lightly taxed travel inside Europe.
An Oakland Cop Joins the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame
Unions and their bought politicians have got a nice scam
Evidence from the States: Higher Taxes = Fewer Jobs
We’ve got new evidence from the interaction of federal and state tax policy.
A Lesson for Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the International Monetary Fund
The legacy of socialism in Eastern Europe tells a tale.
A Tribute to Art Laffer
A consequential man get the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Connecticut’s Fiscal Decay
The sad decline of a former economic success story.
The Trump Tax Reform Is Generating Good Results
Critics are wrong about the cause of red-ink.