by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
It’s not easy to identify the worst international bureaucracy. The United Nations embraces some terrible ideas on a range of policies, though it is usually too incompetent to actually move policy in the wrong direction. The International Monetary...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
With the election less than two months away, there’s a lot of discussion and debate about Trump’s performance. I put together a report card last year showing that his economic policies have been a mixed bag, with good grades on tax and regulation, but bad grades...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2020 | Blogs, Education
I’m a huge fan of school choice. Simply stated, private schools deliver far superior results for children compared to costly and bureaucratic government schools. Moreover, given the way minorities are poorly served by the status quo, school choice should be the civil...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
New York is in trouble from bad economic policy, especially excessive taxing and spending. This is one of the reasons why there’s been a steady exodus of taxpayers from the Empire State. The problem is especially acute for New York City, which has been suffering from...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Way back in early 2017, I warned in an interview that Trump would be a big spender (sadly, I was right). But I wasn’t being reflexively anti-Trump. Here’s a clip from that same program where I speculated that Trump might have the political skill to win support from...
