by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
Back in March, I wrote a 50-day assessment on Trump’s presidency. I listed six questions and mostly concluded that there wasn’t enough information to give accurate answers. In other words, if Trump was a student, he would have received an “I” for incomplete. Now that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I expressed pessimism yesterday about Trump’s tax plan. Simply stated, I don’t think Congress is willing to enact a large tax cut given the nation’s grim fiscal outlook. In this Fox Business interview, I elaborated on my concerns while also pointing out that the plan...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
I want tax cuts. I support tax cuts. I relish tax cuts. I like tax cuts because I’m a curmudgeonly libertarian and I think people should have the first claim on the money they earn. I like tax cuts because I’m an economist and we’ll get more growth if penalties on...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’m normally a big fan of shutting down the government and I’ve tried to convince timid lawmakers that shutdown fights can be worthwhile. I wrote a day-by-day analysis of new reports during the big shutdown fight that took place in the Clinton years and showed that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Every so often, I share an image that is unambiguously depressing. Usually because it suggests that freedom is slowly eroding. A chart showing that corporations are using cronyism to pad their bottom line. A table on the rapid rise of dependency in the United States....
