by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m a policy wonk rather than a political partisan or political prognosticator, so I generally don’t comment on elections. But since I’ve received several emails asking my opinion of the Trump debacle and this is the topic dominating the headlines, I will offer my two...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2016 | Blogs, Taxation
Because of his support for big government, I don’t like Donald Trump. Indeed, I have such disdain for him (as well as Hillary Clinton) that I’ve arranged to be out of the country when the election takes place. The establishment media, by contrast, is excited about the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation, VAT
I’m not the biggest fan of Paul Krugman in his role as a doctrinaire advocate of leftist policy (he used to be within the mainstream and occasionally point out the risks of government intervention in his former role as an academic economist). It’s not just that he...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 19, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I’m not a fan of the International Monetary Fund. The bureaucracy was created in 1944 to manage and coordinate the system of fixed exchange rates created as part of the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement. But once fixed exchange rates disappeared, the over-funded...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 15, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agree on things, it’s always bad news for taxpayers. They both want to boost the capital gains tax rate on private equity investment. They both want to let the entitlement problem fester and worsen. They both want more federally...
