by Dan Mitchell | Nov 26, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m going to break tradition. Normally, I use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to explain how the Pilgrims almost starved to death because they initially used a socialist system for farming, but then began to prosper once the colony shifted to a property rights-based...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Last year, I shared this video from the Competitive Enterprise Institute to help explain how government bureaucrats are making it harder for Americans to clean their plates, bowls, and silverware. Washington’s dishwasher mandate is just one example of how red tape...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Most readers care about economic developments and economic comparisons involving the United States. Some readers also care about what’s happening in other major nations, such as China, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Relatively few readers, by...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 23, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Public finance experts sometime differ in how to describe a value-added tax. Is it a hidden form of a national sales tax, imposed at each stage of the production process? Is it a hidden withholding tax on income, imposed at each stage of the production process? Both...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 22, 2020 | Blogs, Education
There’s a lot of speculation that we’re in the midst of a political realignment, with Democrats becoming the party of the rich and the Republicans becoming the party of the working class. I don’t pretend to know whether this realignment is happening or what form it...
