Policymakers should focus on growth rather than inequality or redistribution.
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.
Removing a Subsidy Is Not an Attack
Higher Ed is losing handouts and subsidies.
There’s a Good Argument for Trump’s Tariff Plan. Unfortunately, He Can’t Make It
This article appeared in the Telegraph.
Trade and National Prosperity
Americans have become amazingly richer.
The Education Racket
There’s been a giant increase in the number of education bureaucrats.
Advice for DOGE: Terminate Funding for Government-Subsidized Media
There’s no reason to have government media outlets.
The Biden Tax Avoidance Strategy
There’s nothing wrong with legally striving to keep income out of the grasping hand of government.
Bipartisan Illiteracy: Price Controls on Credit Card Interest Rates
Economic illiteracy is bipartisan.
Trump’s Tariffs and the Income Tax
Knowing math means knowing this plan is absurd. But there’s still one way to eliminate income taxes.
Trump Doubles Down on Protectionist Failure
This is insanely bad economic policy.