by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Featured
To explain why politicians should not interfere with prices, I’ve shared videos from Marginal Revolution, Don Boudreaux, Learn Liberty, and Russ Roberts. To add to that collection, here’s part of a lecture by Professor Antony Davies. The bottom...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Featured, Government Spending, Taxation
As part of a recent discussion with Gene Tunny in Australia, I explained why I support “Starve the Beast,” which means keeping taxes as low as possible to help achieve the goal of spending restraint. The premise of Starve the Beast is very simple. Politicians like to...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Featured, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
First we got Biden’s $1.9 trillion so-called stimulus. Then we got his $1 trillion-plus infrastructure boondoggle. Now Congress may be on the verge of approving the President’s budget, which (if we use honest numbers) is a $5 trillion plan to...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 17, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Featured, Government Spending
I’ve periodically warned the European nations such as France, Italy, Greece, and Spain almost surely are doomed to suffer a fiscal crisis. This is because governments in Europe didn’t respond to the 2010 crisis by actually...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2021 | Blogs, Featured, Tax Competition, Taxation
How the Irish Saved Civilization was a bestselling book in the mid-1990s. Today, we’re going to consider an updated version, focusing on whether Ireland can save the world economy from Joe Biden’s plan for a global tax cartel. This should be a slam-dunk...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2021 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Featured, Taxation
Yesterday’s column cited new scholarly research about the negative economic impact of Biden’s plans to increase capital gains taxation. In today’s column, let’s start with a refresher on why this tax shouldn’t exist. But if you don’t want...
