Feeling like Goldilocks on this issue.
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.
Is Good Globalism Being Undermined by Bad Globalism?
What does globalism actually mean?
Seven Adverse Consequences of Big Government
This is “goldfish government”
The (Highly Implausible but Theoretically Attractive) Case for Import Taxes
The strongest case for trade taxes still comes up short.
New IMF Study Shows U.S. Would Benefit from Lower Tax Rates and Less Government Spending
This kind of research can be very helpful.
Fiscal Fights with Friends: Should there Be a Federal Program for Paid Parental Leave?
An idea that sounds nice, but won’t work.
Will Congress Reject Trump’s Job-Killing Tax Increases on Trade?
Bastiat warned us.
Switzerland: Home to Practical Libertarians rather than Ideological Libertarians
Compared to other European nations, Switzerland is a fiscal Shangi-La.
Entitlements: The “Most Predictable Economic Crisis in History”
Can’t fix this spending problem with tax hikes.
Markets, Choice, and the Economic Illiteracy of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn
The rational leftists versus the crazies.