by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
As I warned a few days ago, Biden’s so-called Build Back Better plan is not dead. There’s still a significant risk that this economy-sapping plan will get enacted, resulting in big tax increases and a larger burden of government spending....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 4, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
I periodically write about our leftist friends who display remarkable hypocrisy on issues such as taxation, education, Covid, and climate. Here are just a few examples. Joe BidenBarack Obama Elizabeth WarrenHillary...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2022 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
In my recent column listing the “Best and Worst News of 2021,” I included Joe Biden’s global tax cartel as one of the awful things that happened in the past 12 months. It’s bad news for workers, consumers, and shareholders that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
It’s an annual tradition (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, etc) to list a handful of things that I hope might happen in the upcoming year, as well as the things I fear may happen. Sadly, since I understand the economics of “public choice” (something...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending, Taxation
Per tradition (2020, 2019, 2018, etc), we highlight the best and worst developments of the year on December 31. The choices are based on whether a particular policy increases or decreases individual liberty, either in a big way or a symbolic way....
