by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Just like last year, April 15 isn’t the official deadline this year for filing your annual tax return. But we’re still going to “celebrate” with some memes about the income tax and the IRS. We’ll start with something that has always bothered me, which...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve written many times about the value of cost-benefit analysis for government policy. My go-to example is that a nationwide 5-mph speed limit would reduce traffic fatalities, but the resulting economic damage would be so pervasive that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2021 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Back in 2010, I narrated this video on money laundering for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, mostly to help people understand that governments are imposing huge costs on both industry and consumers without any offsetting benefits (such as reductions in crime).....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
While debunking OECD and IMF research on inequality, I explained that it’s important to distinguish between income that is earned honestly and loot that is obtained thanks to government cronyism. That’s also the message of this video from the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 11, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
There’s a growing controversy about whether the various coronavirus-lockdown rules should be relaxed for people who have been vaccinated (as opposed to being relaxed for hypocritical politicians). And if those restrictions are relaxed, vaccinated people...
