by Dan Mitchell | Jul 27, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
When giving speeches outside the beltway, I sometimes urge people to be patient with Washington. Yes, we need fundamental tax reform and genuine entitlement reform, but there’s no way Congress can make those changes with Obama in the White House. But there are some...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve had several reporters ask me to comment on the philosophical and policy differences between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. I’m always happy to oblige, yet I don’t think any of them have included my comments in their stories because I always give what seems...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 25, 2015 | Blogs
Remember Sleepless in Seattle, the 1993 romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan? Well, there should be a remake of that film entitled Clueless in Washington. But it wouldn’t be romantic and it wouldn’t be a comedy. Though there would be a laughable aspect to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 24, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
The conventional wisdom, pushed by the IMF and others, is that Greece’s economy will never recover unless there is substantial debt relief. Translated into English, that means the Greek government should be allowed to break the contracts it made with the people and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m very fond of Estonia, and not just because of the scenery. Back in the early 1990s, it was the first post-communist nation to adopt a flat tax. More recently, it showed that genuine spending cuts were the right way to respond to the 2008 crisis (notwithstanding...
