by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I wrote a column about taxes and growth in 2020. Let’s augment that analysis by digging into some details. I decided to address the issue today after seeing a tweet with this helpful summary of how different taxes cause different levels of economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Given my concern about the negative effects of excessive government spending, as well as my concerns about the consequences of ever-growing government (higher taxes, higher debt, inflation), I’m always very interested to learn about the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
After Trump’s first term, right after he left office, I assessed his economic policy. I pointed out that Trump was good on some issues (taxes and regulation) and bad on others (spending and trade). The net result, I wrote, was that, “his...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
From a wonky economic perspective, fascism is a system based on nominal private ownership but de facto government control. For most people, however, I think George Orwell had the best description. Fascism is simply something you don’t like,...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Supply Side, Taxation
Part I of this series looked at how the capital gains tax discourages old people from selling their homes. Part II of this series looked at how a so-called luxury tax was distorting the vehicle market in Australia. For our third installment in the...
