by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Here are three things I’ve written about tax policy. See if you can detect a pattern: I’ve written that I don’t want a value-added tax because the money would be used to finance bigger government. I’ve also explained I don’t want a carbon tax because the revenue from...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, here’s the opening of the big-business version of Sonnet 43. How do I hate thee, capitalism? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, for I am big and competition is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
This is depressing. Republicans botched the repeal of Obamacare. They’ve already sold out (twice!) on the spending caps in the Budget Control Act, and they’re about to do it again. And now they want to bring back earmarks. In this interview with Neil Cavuto, I explain...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve written that it’s theoretically possible for Greece to pay its debts and restore prosperity. After all, it’s simply a matter of obeying fiscal policy’s Golden Rule and reforming a suffocating tax system. But I’ve always figured none of that will happen because...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I expressed approval when Trump proposed to reduce U.S. funding for international bureaucracies, mostly because of my disdain for the statist policy agenda of the International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Sadly, there’s has...
