Stiglitz-style policies have failed.
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.
If You Want Good Tax Policy, Spending Restraint Is Needed
Why politicians may want to let the tax cuts expire.
Michelle Obama, Class-Warfare, and Clueless Hypocrisy
Michelle Obama demonstrated a remarkable absence of self-awareness.
Chicago’s Recipe for Fiscal Crisis
It seems to be getting worse rather than better.
Kamala’s Proposed Increase in the Corporate Tax Rate: The Good News and Bad News
What happens if Harris wins and her plan becomes law.
The Economic Cost of Ever-Growing Government
The insight of the Rahn Curve.
Part II: What’s the Best Federal Tax Policy for Working Families?
The answer is easy…and difficult.
The Tweedledee and Tweedledum of Big Government?
The 2024 presidential race is “Deja vu all over again.”
Kamala Harris, Price Controls, and the Contest for the Dumbest Policy Proposal of 2024
An idea so awful that it copies one of Richard Nixon’s many terrible economic policies.
Illinois and Fiscal Suicide, Part III
It takes a real basket case to rank at the bottom.