It’s always a bad idea to let politicians and bureaucrats invest with other people’s money.
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.
The Chinese Miracle and the Economics of Growth
A look at China’s uneven reforms.
My Presidential Choice
A man of classical liberal principles.
Please, Hillary, Don’t Make America More Like Europe
It’s depressing to think that some American politicians want to copy European failure.
Assessing Trump’s Acceptance Speech at the GOP Convention: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
Unimpressive performance from the so-called fact checkers.
A Very Depressing Chart on Creeping Cronyism in the American Economy
Sometimes profits increase for the wrong reasons.
Tax Complexity Is a Tax on Paying Taxes
The tax code is much worse than most people realize.
Free Markets and Small Government vs. Redistributionism and State Planning
A simple matrix for comparing governmental systems.
Thomas Sowell on the Economics of Redistribution: Quicksand at One End and Beatings at the other End
The foolishness of the welfare state.
Fighting Terrorism: Europe vs. Texas
Gun control is not an answer to Islamist terrorism.