by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I don’t like Joe Biden’s economic policies, though that’s hardly a surprise since I haven’t liked the policies of any president this century (I’ve referred to Bush, Obama, and Trump as the “three stooges of big government“). Other people have a more...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Yesterday’s column reviewed a new report from the International Monetary Fund and criticized that bureaucracy for celebrating how the world’s most-powerful governments are going to take more money from the private sector thanks to a corporate tax cartel. But that’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
My Fourteenth Theorem of Government explains that when government intervenes for the ostensible purpose of providing help to poor people in the short run, it is all but inevitable that such policies will hurt poor people in the long run. It...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
The first four rounds of my New York vs. Florida contest (available here, here, here, and here) largely focused on Florida’s superior economic policies and superior economic results. So you won’t be surprised to learn that Round #5 continues that...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote a two-part series (here and here) about Donald Trump supporting massive middle-class tax increases. Trump does not admit that is his policy, of course, but that is an unavoidable outcome since he opposes entitlement reform. In the interest of fairness and...
