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...
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...
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
The quality of economic analysis from politicians is never good, but it becomes even worse during election season. The class-warfare rhetoric being spewed by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is profoundly anti-empirical. Our leftist friends genuinely seem to think...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 7, 2016 | Blogs, Taxation
When I give speeches in favor of tax reform, I argue for policies such as the flat tax on the basis of both ethics and economics. The ethical argument is about the desire for a fair system that neither punishes people for being productive nor rewards them for being...
