by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
It boggles the mind to think that the United States now has the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world. But it’s even more amazing that America arguably has the most punitive corporate tax rate in the entire world. Here’s some of what I wrote on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Imagine how weird it would be if the Cato Institute and Americans for Tax Reform praised Barack Obama for fiscal responsibility. And think how inconceivable it would be for the Heritage Foundation and the National Taxpayers Union to applaud Tim “Turbotax” Geithner for...
by Dan Mitchell | May 21, 2014 | Blogs, Europe
While I mostly focus on bad government policy in the United States, I also think we can learn lessons from what’s happening in other nations. In some cases, I share positive stories, such as the success of privatized Social Security in Australia, nationwide school...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 10, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
The new leftist website, Vox, has an article by Sarah Kliff on Vermont’s experiment with a single-payer healthcare system. But I don’t really have much to say about what’s happening in the Green Mountain State, other than to declare that I much prefer healthcare...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Last month, I shared a very interesting video from Canada’s Fraser Institute that explored the link between economic performance and the burden of government spending. There’s now an article in the American Enterprise Institute’s online magazine about this research....
