by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2018 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
I don’t like it when voters support tax increases. Needless to say, voters rarely if ever vote to raise their own taxes. Instead, they get seduced into robbing their neighbors in exchange for the promise of new goodies from politicians. Regardless, it’s still very...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve just finished up a week of lectures and meetings in India. It was an interesting trip, but not an encouraging trip. My first observation is that Indians are enormously successful when they emigrate to the United States. And they also do very well when they...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Last November, I wrote about the lessons we should learn from tax policy in the 1950s and concluded that very high tax rates impose a very high price. About six months before that, I shared lessons about tax policy in the 1980s and pointed out that Reaganomics was a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
I explained back in 2013 that there is a big difference between being pro-market and being pro-business. Pro-market is a belief in genuine free enterprise, which means companies succeed or fail solely on the basis of whether they produce goods and services that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2018 | Blogs, Education
I wrote yesterday about the global evidence showing that more money does not improve the lackluster performance of government schools. Those results are not surprising because we see the same thing in the United States. More money is good for the education...
