by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Spending caps are the most effective way of fulfilling my Golden Rule for fiscal policy. And we have good evidence for this approach, as I explain in this FreedomWorks discussion. I also discuss tax competition in the interview, as well as other topics. You can watch...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2019 | Blogs, Crime, Society
My collection of liberals who are honest on the issue of gun control is expanding. In 2012, I shared some important observations from Jeffrey Goldberg, a left-leaning writer for The Atlantic. In his column, he basically admitted his side was wrong about gun control....
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Having been inspired by Ronald Reagan’s libertarian-ish message (and track record), I’ve always been suspicious of alternative forms of conservatism for the simple reason that they always seem to mean bigger government. There was George H.W. Bush’s “kinder and...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Back in 2012, I wrote that the left’s hostility to tax competition had reached such a crazy level that some of them were even urging military action against low-tax jurisdictions. Though I was amused to see that this warmongering focused on tiny jurisdictions such...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 8, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Supply Side, Taxation
At the risk of over-simplifying, the difference between “supply-side economics” and “demand-side economics” is that the former is based on microeconomics (incentives, price theory) while the latter is based on macroeconomics (aggregate demand, Keynesianism). When...
