by Robert O'Quinn | Jul 25, 2023 | CF&P Foundation Prosperitas Studies, Featured, Publications
[PDF Version] Federal Spending Primer, Part I: Budget Basics By Robert P. O’Quinn* This primer explains the core features of federal budgeting. The first section defines key concepts related to spending, revenue, loans, and debt. The second section...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Featured
In 2022, I did a seven-part series about Bidenomics, focusing on the president’s track record on subsidies, inflation, protectionism, household income, fiscal policy, red tape, and labor-force participation. Let’s take an...
by Brian Garst | Jun 21, 2023 | Featured, Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by IFC Review on June 7, 2023. Efforts to radically reorganise global corporate taxation passed a major milestone when the European Union unanimously agreed to implement Pillar 2, the 15 per cent global minimum tax component of the Organisation...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 26, 2023 | Blogs, Featured, Monetary Policy
Appearing on Vance Ginn’s Let People Prosper, I discussed spending caps, entitlement reform, past fiscal victories, and potential future defeats. For today, I want to highlight what I said about monetary policy. The above segment is less...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Featured, Tax Competition, Taxation
Nearly 13 years ago, I narrated this video about the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based international bureaucracy that uses American tax dollars to advocate for bigger government and higher taxes. Everything I said in that video is...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Featured, Welfare and Entitlements
Leftists should be nice to rich people people because those entrepreneurs, investors, and business owners are the ones financing the federal government. However, there are too few rich people to finance a European-sized welfare state. The above video is...