by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
April 15 is usually the worst day of the year, giving Americans ample reasons to both laugh and cry.* Because of a holiday in Washington, D.C., however, tax returns this year are due on April 18. So let’s celebrate (or commiserate) this awful...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Whether they are based on 10 questions or 144 questions, I can’t resist taking quizzes that supposedly identify one’s political or economic philosophy. The good news, according to various quizzes, is that I’m 92 percent minarchist and...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 16, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
I’m more than happy to condemn Joe Biden for his bad policy proposals, such as higher tax rates, fake stimulus, red tape, and a bigger welfare state. But as I discuss in this segment from a recent interview, he bears very little blame for today’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
At the risk of understatement, I am not a fan of the Internal Revenue Service. But, as shown in this closing segment from a recent interview, I get especially outraged when IRS bureaucrats engage in criminal behavior and nobody cares. This should outrage everyone that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Thomas Piketty is a big proponent of class-warfare tax policy because he views inequality as a horrible outcome. But a soak-the-rich policy agenda, echoed by many other academics such as Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman,...
