by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2022 | Blogs, Education
Politicians are generally despicable people, but the worst of the worst almost certainly would include the ones who oppose school choice in order to curry favor with teacher unions. Like Joe Biden, for instance. But if you...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 1, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I wrote last year that today’s Americans are much richer than their parents and grandparents (and the gap becomes even more enormous when comparing with earlier generations). But the data I cited almost surely understate the improvement in...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
The world is much freer today than when I was born, largely because the “Evil Empire” collapsed. The Soviet Union was awful. It killed at least 20 million of its own people (some say as many as 60 million). It enslaved and impoverished its own...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
It is easy to criticize the many types of bad tax policy in the United States. High marginal tax ratesPervasive double taxationMind-boggling complexityGrotesque unfairnessThe Internal Revenue Service But let’s not forget other...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 28, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
What accounts for Switzerland’s “improbable success“? How did a small, land-locked nation with few natural resources become so successful? Switzerland routinely ranks very high in international comparisons of economic liberty, so that means...
