by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2021 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve written many times about how Americans are moving from high-tax states to low-tax states. Now we have even more evidence because the Census Bureau has issued its annual report on state population...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
It’s hard to be optimistic about Japan’s economic future, in large part because the burden of government is expanding thanks to an aging population and a tax-and-transfer entitlement system. Maintaining that approach is a recipe for ever-higher...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2021 | Blogs
There are not many advantages to being old, but I feel lucky to have been alive to see the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We should celebrate this victory over evil every day. But especially on December...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2021 | Blogs, Free Market
Since it’s Christmas Eve, let’s use this opportunity for a holiday-themed economics lesson. I did a version of this back in 2012 by sharing a remake of Christmas songs. This year, we’re going to look at A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 23, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Senator Elizabeth Warren is a particularly noxious politician. It’s not just that she’s a doctrinaire leftist on a wide range of issues (class warfare, corporate governance, government spending, business taxation, cronyism, wealth...
