by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Welfare and Entitlements
I created the Eighth Theorem of Government to illustrate the difference between well-meaning people (who want to help the poor) and zero-sum people (who seem to think some people are poor because other people are rich). This raises the...
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...
