by Dan Mitchell | Mar 2, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
People sometimes ask me how I’ve managed to write a column every single day since November 2009. Sadly, the answer has a lot to do with politicians having a vote-buying and power-grabbing incentive to produce a never-ending supply of bad policies. Consider what just...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Back in January, I wrote about the $42 trillion price tag of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. To pay for this massive expansion in the burden of government spending, some advocates have embraced “Modern Monetary Theory,” which basically assumes the Federal...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2019 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Much to the consternation of some Republicans, I periodically explain that the Trump Administration is – at best – a mixed blessing for supporters of limited government. It’s not just that Trump is the most protectionist president since Herbert Hoover, though that’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
My views on Brexit haven’t changed since I wrote “The Economic Case for Brexit” back in 2016. It’s a simple issue of what route is most likely to produce prosperity for the people of the United Kingdom. And that means escaping the dirigiste grasp of the European...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 26, 2019 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m currently in the Cayman Islands, which is one of my favorite places since – like Bermuda, Monaco, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda, and a few other lucky places in the world – it has no income tax. At the risk of stating the obvious, the absence of an income tax has...
