The Yellow Vests are either ignorant or hypocritical.
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.
Fed Must Leave Real-Time Payment Services to Private Sector
This article appeared on NewsMax.
Good News from Washington: Social Security’s Long-Run Fiscal Shortfall Is “Only” $42.1 Trillion
A private pension fund with these numbers would have been shut down a long time ago.
Washing Machines, Protectionism, and Net Job Losses
Remembering the “unseen” costs of protectionism.
IMF Research Shows Higher Business Taxes Reduce Likelihood of Firm Survival
Unsurprising results
Can Argentina Finally Break Free from Decades of Economy-Sapping Statist Governance?
Juan Perón initiated Argentina’s slide toward big government.
The Federal Reserve Should Have Less Power, not More Power
What’s the biggest problem with the Federal Reserve?
Busting the Spending Caps…Again
Washington’s not interested in sensible fiscal policy.
The Village Experiment that Transformed China
A reminder that incentives matter.
Is Crazy Bernie Sanders a Sincere Hypocrite?
Bernie’s people think we should mimic Venezuela’s horrid socialism.