The annual “best and worst” column features elections in Argentina and Colorado, positive education developments, and Chinese regression.

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.
Milei’s Best Proposal?
Truth in government would be an amazing development.
Even More Evidence Against Minimum Wage Laws
Minimum wages are bad for workers and the economy.
The Anti-Trump of Argentina Pushes for Free Trade
Milei is on the right track.
Blue-to-Red Tax Migration, Part V
Blue states are losing power and taxable income.
The Worst Journalism of 2023
More media absurdity.
Great Moments in Tax Avoidance
Shohei Ohtani has figured out how to keep nearly $100 million out of the clutches of despicable California politicians.
More Evidence for Colorado’s Spending Cap
TABOR can be strengthened
Spending Caps and the Benefit of Fiscal Restraint
National and state politicians have dug deep fiscal holes.
The Fiscal Case for Federalism
Arguably the world’s best governed nation is also the most decentralized.










