Balanced budget rules give politicians an excuse to raise taxes.
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.
The Economic Cost of Trump-Biden Protectionism
Protectionism enables cronyism and corruption.
Class Warfare and School Choice
Libertarians think the law should apply equally.
Newsom’s Proposed Gun Ban: Honest But Wrong
Credit for trying to do the wrong thing in the right way.
The Most Economically Illiterate Tweet of 2023?
Contra CNN, we know what caused inflation.
Nebraska Joins the Tax-Cutting Wave
The next step hopefully will be a flat tax.
School Choice Is Great for Students, but It’s also Good for Taxpayers
Defenders of the status quo are making absurd claims.
Student Loans = Higher Tuition + More Debt
The relationship between student loans and higher tuition is very apparent in this chart.
Entitlement Collapse and Demographic Change
A major problem for tax-and-transfer welfare states is looming.
Minnesota’s Risky Experiment
It is a mistake to turn Minnesota into a “frozen California.”