by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2020 | Blogs, Education
One month ago, I wrote that expanded school choice might be a silver lining to the dark cloud of corornavirus. This issue is getting more heated, as this Reason video explains. When I’ve written in the past about the issue of school choice, I’ve focused on...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
Last week, I shared some data showing how the economy enjoyed a strong recovery from recession in the early 1920s when President Warren Harding cut government spending. (And these were genuine cuts, not the nonsense we get from today’s politicians, who claim they’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
Last week, I gave a presentation on the Laffer Curve to a seminar organized by the New Economic School in the nation of Georgia. A major goal was to help students understand that you can’t figure out how changes in tax rates affect tax revenues without also figuring...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
Speculating about tax policy in 2021, with Washington potentially being controlling by Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi, there are four points to consider. The bad news is that Joe Biden has endorsed a wide range of punitive tax increases. The good news is...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
I went to George Mason University for my Ph.D. specifically because of my interest in both “public choice” and “Austrian theory.” The former deals with analyzing how politicians, bureaucrats, and voters really behave (as opposed to the naive view you may have learned...
