by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Over the past couple of years, one of the most disturbing – and also revealing – things to happen in Washington is when Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposed giving more money to people “unwilling to work.” As discussed in this interview, the left...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2021 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
The best news of 2021 almost surely is the big expansion of school choice in several states. That’s a great development, especially for poor and minority families. But there’s another positive trend at the state level. As indicated...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Trade
I’ve been warning, over and over and over again, that a European-style welfare state means huge tax increases on ordinary people. Simply stated, there are not enough rich people to finance big government...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
I critiqued Biden’s proposal for a global corporate tax cartel as part of a recent discussion with South Africa’s Free Market Foundation. Here’s the segment where I explain why it would be bad for developing nations. At the risk of stating the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 14, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Part I of this series looked at socialism’s track record of failure, while Part II pointed out that greater levels of socialism lead to greater levels of misery. For Part III, let’s start with this video on the economics of socialism. If the world was...
