You get much better results when the size and scope of government is constrained.

Dan Mitchell
Daniel J. Mitchell is the President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation. Dr. Mitchell advocates limited government and fundamental tax reform, and is the nation’s leading opponent of tax harmonization schemes developed by the Brussels-based European Union, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations.
In addition to fiscal policy, Dr. Mitchell is a trenchant observer of economic developments and an expert on Social Security reform – particularly the fiscal policy impact of reform and what the US can learn from other nations that have created personal retirement accounts.
Mitchell’s Law and the Lather-Rinse-Repeat Cycle of Government Failure
More government is the problem instead of the solution.
What’s Responsible for Ever-Growing Government, Entitlements or Defense?
Two charts provide an easy answer.
The Growing Need for Trump’s Proposed 15 Percent Corporate Tax Rate
It’s time for America to join the race it started.
Donald Trump, the Medicaid Monster, and Entitlement “Cuts”
Might Trump do the right thing on entitlements?
Secession, Federalism, and National Comity
Federalism would make secession unnecessary.
More Inane Developments in the Drug War
Everyone should be upset by this.
The “Progressive” Threat to Baltic Exceptionalism
Why do they want to ruin a good thing?
Three Sensible Rules to Guide the Trump Administration’s Infrastructure Initiative
Trump’s infrastructure plans sound like bad news for advocates of limited government.
What Lesson Will Leftists Learn from another “Successful” Tax Increase?
Another example of people reacting to tax increases.







