by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, States
If asked to name the best policy development in recent years, the easy answer is Javier Milei’s rescue of Argentina. If asked the same question, but told to focus on the United States, there are two possible answers. The shift to school choice at the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Donald Trump, who describes himself as “Tariff Man,” recently wrote a column in defense of his protectionist trade policy for the Wall Street Journal. After reading the column, my first thought was that Trump was trying to show he is more economically...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2026 | Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Today’s column features a very depressing chart from a report published last year by the Congressional Budget Office and it shows that poor people now get about three-fourths of their “income” from handouts. That’s far different from the data in 1979, when poor people...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
Peter Navarro was an “environmental activist” Democrat who ran for office several times in the 1990s on a “no-growth platform” in California. He’s still against growth today, but he now works for Donald Trump and is a big supporter of the President’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
The death tax presumably is the most destructive tax on a per-dollar-collected basis, but I suspect the capital gains tax is in second place. Like the death tax, the capital gains tax is pure double taxation, thus exacerbating the tax...
