by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Appearing on MSNBC, I explain why Reagan’s approach helped America. But I also warn that Obama is making America more like France. For inexplicable reasons, some people have been giving me a hard time about my very snazzy jacket.
by Brian Garst | Jun 18, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
When you’re a government bureaucrat, it’s never a bad time to interrupt people with real jobs, doing real work, in order to apply pointless rules. Rather than deploying all resources to address the oil spill in the Gulf, the Coast Guard has been holding...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
This article from the Weekly Standard almost makes me want to cry with frustration. It shows how the healthcare system generally would function in the absence of government-imposed distortions such as Medicare, Medicaid, and (especially!) the tax loophole for...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2010 | Blogs, Europe, Flat Tax, Tax Competition, Taxation
I gave a speech in Hungary about two weeks ago and now the government has announced a big step in the direction of better fiscal policy. According to Reuters, “Hungary’s new government plans to introduce a flat personal income tax of 16 percent from 2011,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2010 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
I have a question for my friends who support a national sales tax. First, some background. Beginning with the defeat of Woody Jenkins in his Louisiana Senate race back in the 1990s, various versions of the national sales tax have caused political headaches for GOP...
