by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
In the three previous columns in this series (here, here, and here), we’ve reviewed all sorts of evidence showing that dumping more tax dollars into government schools is not a recipe for better educational outcomes. Instead, our taxes mostly go to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Regulations, Welfare and Entitlements
So far this decade, I’ve written at least nine columns (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) showing that the United States is out-performing Europe. Since I endlessly complain about bad policy in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
Regular readers know I have a skeptical attitude about Donald Trump. His first term was a mix of good and bad policies and I expect a similar jumble of good and bad policies in his second term. Consider, for instance, the commonly held...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
My primary criticism of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is that the Paris-based international bureaucracy is trying to become some sort of global tax enforcer for left-wing policy. Indeed, I founded CF&P in 2000 precisely because the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, States, Taxation
In my efforts to promote economic liberty, I usually focus on real-world evidence. Sometimes this means looking at one policy (Norway’s wealth tax, for instance) and examining what happened (lots of rich people moving to Switzerland). But often it means looking...
