by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
It’s time for a lesson in tax economics. Though hopefully today’s topic won’t be as dry and boring as my missives on more technical issues like depreciation and worldwide taxation. That’s because we’re going to talk about the taxation of workers, which is something...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Republicans are probably going to surrender on spending caps, thus allowing Obama to reverse his biggest-ever defeat. Moreover, GOPers almost surely will get nothing in exchange for raising the debt limit, thus squandering an opportunity to limit profligacy in...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Welfare and Entitlements
Whenever there’s a discussion of the Nordic nations, I feel conflicted. I don’t like the punitively high tax rates and socially destructive levels of redistribution in nations such as Denmark, but I also admire the very laissez-faire policies those countries have when...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
More than two years ago, I cited some solid research from the Tax Foundation to debunk some misguided analysis from the New York Times about the taxation of multinational companies. Well, it’s déjà vu all over again, as the late Yogi Berra might say. That’s because we...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
Federal government redistribution programs don’t work. We’ve ignored the lessons of history about the dangers of government intervention, so is it any mystery that we now have millions of people mired in dependency. Yet some people in Washington want to double down on...
