by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
When I posted a video about “libertarian porn” back in 2010, readers presumably were either relieved or disappointed that there was no nudity. I may get the same reaction today, because we’re going to have a discussion – but only G-rated – about what our British...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2014 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
Washington is in the middle of another debate about redistributing money. But that’s hardly newsworthy. Politics, after all, is basically a never-ending racket in which insiders buy votes and accumulate power with other people’s money. The current debate about...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I’ve shared many charts over the years, but two of the most compelling ones deal with poverty. The numbers in this chart, which are based on Census Bureau data and scholarly studies (see here, here, here, and here), show that the poverty rate was steadily...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2013 | Blogs, Taxation
One of my missions in life is fundamental tax reform. I would like to replace the corrupt internal revenue code with a simple and fair flat tax. Though what I really want is a tax system that minimizes the damage of extracting money from the productive sector of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
Obamacare was put together by people who don’t understand economics. This is probably the understatement of the year since I could be referring to many features of the bad law. The higher tax burden on saving and investment, making an anti-growth tax system even...
