by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
During the Obama years, I shared a cartoon strip that cleverly makes the point that some people will choose not to work if they can get enough goodies from the government. That Wizard-of-Id parody has been viewed more than 56,000 times, which suggests many...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
Biden’s tax agenda – especially the proposed increase in the corporate rate – would be very bad for American competitiveness. We know this is true because the Administration wants to violate the sovereignty of other nations with a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Biden campaigned for higher taxes and a bigger welfare state, so I haven’t been surprised by his misguided fiscal agenda. That being said, I was modestly hopeful that he would move trade policy in the right direction after four years...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
While Paul Krugman sometimes misuses and misinterprets numbers for ideological reasons (see his errors regarding the United States, France, Canada, the United States, Estonia, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom),...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
How should Nazism be classified, particularly when compared to socialism? Are these ideologies at opposite ends of a spectrum, or are they simply different sides of the same collectivist coin? In my humble opinion, both views are correct, which is why I...