by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Over the years, I’ve written multi-column series comparing Texas and California, as well as New York and Florida. The takeaway from these columns is that New York and California are declining when Texas and Florida are rising. I’ve also...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Honest leftists (the “Okunites“) generally acknowledge that laissez-faire policies deliver more growth, but they nonetheless favor high taxes and redistribution because they argue that social equality matters a lot. However, according to this chart, there’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Having written back in August about China being the least-successful ethnically Chinese country, I was interested to see this recent tweet. Mr. Demos of Pnyx speculated that China would be as backward as India today if the communists has not prevailed...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, States, Taxation
Keeping with tradition, let’s look at the results from the Tax Foundation’s annual Tax Competitiveness Index (as I did in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, etc, etc). Here’s a map showing how states are ranked. It’s good to be light green...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2025 | Blogs, Free Market
I’ve shared a two-part video series (here and here) on the “improbable success” of Switzerland. Building on that, here’s a report from CNBC about the “world’s best nation.” There are many reasons to admire Switzerland. Most individual liberty...
