Pfizer’s Inversion Is Good News for American Workers, American Consumers, and American Shareholders

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 29, 2016 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation

I’m never surprised when politicians make absurd statements, but I’m still capable of being shocked when other people make outlandish assertions. Like the leftist policy wonk who claimed that capitalism is actually coercion, even though free markets are based on...

Learning from New Jersey’s Bad Tax Policy

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation

Federalism is a great idea, and not just because America’s Founders wanted a small and limited central government. It’s also a good idea because states are laboratories that teach us about the benefits of good policy and the costs of bad policy. And when we...

Critical Charts about the Future of the American Economy and the 2016 Election?

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2016 | Blogs, Economics

James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute has an intriguing idea. Instead of a regular debate, he would like presidential candidates to respond to a handful of charts from the recent Economic Report of the President that supposedly highlight very...

Leftist Tax Policy: Shoot at the Rich, Wound the Poor

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2016 | Blogs, Economics

Folks on the left tell us that they want to help the less fortunate. I sometimes wonder if their real motive is to penalize success and punish the “rich,” but let’s be charitable and assume that many of them truly wish to help the poor. That’s a noble sentiment, to be...

The Right Kind of Class Warfare: Workers vs. Looters

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 14, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs

Here’s an image a reader shared with me and it’s the perfect way to explain why the Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and the rest of the class warriors are wrong. The problem isn’t rich people. It’s looters and moochers, regardless of their income. What makes this...