A simple reform to help both low-income Americans and taxpayers.
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.
A Fair – but Ultimately Misleading – Critique of GOP Budgets
Republicans caught using budget gimmicks.
The Biggest Tax Scam Is the Internal Revenue Code and the IRS
The IRS wants us on the look at for tax scams. Found one! It’s the IRS.
Hypocrisy Alert: International Bureaucracy with Tax-Free Employees Is Pushing a Big Energy Tax on American Consumers
The OECD Is up to its usual tricks.
The Case against the Value-Added Tax
Why a VAT would lead to more spending and more debt.
Greece, Marxism, and Paul Krugman
Keynes and his acolytes are doing more damage to Greece than even Marxists.
America’s Government School System: Never Have so Many Paid so Much to Achieve so Little
Big spending and centralization has not worked in education.
Chairmen of House and Senate Budget Committees Propose Good Budgets, Particularly Compared to Obama’s Spendthrift Plan
The good news is that the plans follow Mitchell’s Golden Rule, but they could do much more.
Lessons from Sweden about Welfare and Immigration
Sweden’s welfare state facing an immigration challenge.
Are Congressional Republicans Big-Spending Bushies or Fiscally-Responsible Reaganites?
Republicans are Jekyll and Hyde on spending.