by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2023 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve written several times about the issue of the gender pay gap, mostly to point out that our friends on the left are wrong when they assert that there is pervasive and significant sex discrimination in wage levels. When debating this...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
I repeatedly write about inequality, largely in hopes of helping people, especially my left-leaning friends, understand that we should instead focus on other issues, such as economic opportunity and poverty reduction. In other words, let’s try to...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
Since Americans are not as sensible as the Swiss, I’m generally not a fan of direct democracy in the United States. Simply stated, I don’t like untrammeled majoritarianism, which occurs when 51 percent of voters can pillage 49 percent of voters. But I’ll admit that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Regulatory policy has been one of the bright spots of the Trump Administration (along with tax policy). But it’s not a perfect record. In a column for Townhall, Steve Sherman describes how the Labor Department launched a regulatory attack against Oracle in the final...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’ve previously argued that “freedom of association” is the best way of dealing with thorny social issues such as baking cakes for gay weddings and transgender bathroom usage. Simply stated, people should have the freedom to do business with each other – or not do...
