by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Happy New Year! We listed yesterday the good and bad policy developments of 2017, so now let’s speculate about potential victories and defeats in 2018. Here are two things I hope will happen this year. Welfare reform – If my friends and contacts on Capitol Hill are...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Since it’s the last day of the year, let’s look back on 2017 and highlight the biggest victories and losses for liberty. For last year’s column, we had an impressive list of overseas victories in 2016, including the United Kingdom’s Brexit from the European Union,...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
When I criticize America’s wretched tax code (now slightly less worse because of the recent tax bill), I generally focus my ire on the politicians who have spent more than 100 years creating an insanely complicated and convoluted system. The Internal Revenue Service,...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
In 2011, I wrote about how taxpayers were getting pillaged to finance a new metro line in Fairfax County, Virginia. But you won’t be surprised to learn that California taxpayers are getting screwed even worse. I’ve since learned, however, that the real experts at...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The right kind of tax reform can help people directly and indirectly. They benefit directly if reform reduces their tax burden and gives them more take-home income. They benefit indirectly if reform increases growth and leads to additional pre-tax income. For what...
