by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
When I was younger, folks in the policy community joked that BusinessWeek was the “anti-business business weekly” because its coverage of the economy was just as stale and predictably left wing as what you would find in the pages of Time or Newsweek. Well, perhaps...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
What’s the worst possible tax hike, the one that would do the most economic damage? Raising income tax rates is never a good idea, and there’s powerful evidence from the 1980s about how upper-income taxpayers have considerable ability to change their behavior in...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I like when leftists accidentally make the case for limited government. The IMF, for instance, accidentally put together some solid evidence showing that a value-added tax is a money machine for bigger government. A story in the New York Times, meanwhile, accidentally...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2016 | Blogs, Education
I wrote a column earlier this month entitled “Anatomy of a Brutal Tax Beating” to highlight how an expert at the Tax Foundation completely dismantled a silly and unlearned article by a writer for Vox. Well, we now have an “Anatomy of a Brutal Education Beating.”...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
Here’s an interesting issue to ponder. Is corruption rampant in government because the perverse incentive structure of politics turns good people into bad people? Or do bad people naturally gravitate to government and politics because it’s the easiest (and legal,...
