by Dan Mitchell | Oct 15, 2024 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I normally despise people who promote class warfare. Assuming someone has earned money honestly (and not via cronyism, bailouts, subsidies, protectionism, or industrial policy), I don’t care if that person earns millions of...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
On tax policy, our friends on the left are motivated by envy and hatred. As shown in this Stossel video, Robert Reich is a sad example of this mindset. John Stossel understates his argument. It’s not that Reich is wrong. He’s wildly wrong. There are four points in the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 5, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
As part of her equality-of-outcomes agenda, Kamala Harris wants to impose lots of soak-the-rich tax increases on investors, entrepreneurs, business owners, and other upper-income taxpayers. Here’s a partial list (for the full list of class-warfare...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
I used to think the world’s biggest hypocrites were the bureaucrats at international bureaucracies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Monetary Fund. They jet around the world at our expense (in...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 8, 2024 | Blogs, States, Taxation
Writing about Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan in 2012, I opined that, “…it probably means nothing. I don’t think there’s been an election in my lifetime that was impacted by the second person on a presidential ticket.” I feel the same way about Tim Walz, who is...
