by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Let’s look today at two of the worst public policy ideas, proposals that are so economically illiterate that they get support only from very dogmatic leftists. We’ll start with the deduction for state and local taxes. Since I’m a fan of the flat tax, I don’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 19, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I just finished a speech at a conference in Miami that looked at changing demographics and the implications for tax competition. To elaborate, I explained how an ever-growing burden of government spending will lead to more...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 18, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
In 2023, we added a D.C. cop and an Italian teacher to the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame, which is an award bestowed on government employees who “have gone above and beyond the call of duty” in strange, disgusting,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 17, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Three days ago, I wrote about Brazil’s budgetary chaos and I issued a corollary to my Golden Rule. Whenever there is a fiscal mess, excess spending growth is the cause. Today, let’s apply that lesson to another South American country. There’s currently...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 17, 2024 | Colombia, Latin American Liberty Project
Actualmente existe una gran controversia fiscal en Colombia. Así que hice lo que suelo hacer, acudir a la base de datos del informe Perspectivas de la economía mundial del FMI (no soy partidario de la agenda política de esa burocracia, pero tienen los mejores datos)...
