by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation, Trade
When President Biden proposed a 10-year tax hike of about $3 trillion in 2021, I was very critical. But my hostility was not because Biden is a Democrat. I’ve also condemned Republicans who support higher taxes...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2023 | Blogs
Mostly because politicians focus on the seen rather than the unseen , I’ve unfortunately had several reasons to write about government policies and premature death. Government-run health carePandemic lockdownsFDA regulationGun...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I have repeatedly explained that spending restraint is good fiscal policy. And I have specifically explained that you achieve this goal by limiting spending so that it grows slower than the productive sector of the economy. A fringe...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
When I visited Argentina last November to give some speeches, I expressed a lot of pessimism and rhetorically asked whether the country could be rescued. In a column earlier this month, I followed up with two reasons for why Argentina is a basket...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Monetary Policy
The U.K.-based Economist calculated a few years ago that Taiwan has been the world’s fastest growing economy over the previous 100 years. That’s not a big surprise since it started poor and is following the tried-and-true recipe for...
