by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
When I give speeches on fiscal policy, I commonly get some variation of this question (and you can choose one of more of the options). Isn’t our fiscal problem largely the result of the wars/intervention/Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya/Syria launched by...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Supply Side, Tax Competition, Taxation
There are several features of President-Elect Trump’s tax plan that are worthy of praise, including death tax repeal, expensing, and lower marginal tax rates on households. But the policy that probably deserves the most attention is Trump’s embrace of a 15 percent tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m a fiscal policy wonk, so I freely acknowledge that I sometimes look at the world through green-eyeshade-colored lenses. But I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that expanding entitlements, changing demographics, and increasing dependency are the main...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2016 | Blogs, Society
The concept of secession (part of a jurisdiction breaking away to become independent) has a bad reputation in the United States because it is linked to the reprehensible institution of slavery. But, as Walter Williams has explained, secession today may be an effective...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Society
When writing about money laundering laws, I’ll sometimes highlight gross abuses by government and I’ll periodically make the usual libertarian arguments about privacy. But I mostly focus on how the laws simply don’t make sense from a cost-benefit perspective....
