Bureaucrats at the United Nations Endorse Sweeping New Tax Powers for Politicians

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2014 | Blogs, Free Market, Tax Competition, Taxation

I’m not a big fan of international bureaucracies. Regular readers know that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is the worst institution from my perspective, followed by the International Monetary Fund. Some folks ask why the United Nations isn’t...

Obama Is Right about the European Economy…But Doesn’t Grasp the Implications

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation

I’m not a big fan of Obamanomics. I don’t like the President’s class-warfare mentality on taxes. I don’t like his support for Keynesian spending policy. And I don’t like his costly expansions of government such as Obamacare. Indeed, I even like mocking his reflexive...

Nation’s Leader Rejects Keynesian Economics, Acknowledges that Real Jobs Are Created by the Private Sector

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian

You’re probably surprised by the title of this post. You may even be wondering if President Obama had an epiphany on the road to Greece? I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but the leader we’re talking about isn’t the President of the United States. Instead, we’re...

Led by North Carolina and Kansas, a Look at States Moving in the Right Direction

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 2, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Taxation

My colleagues Chris Edwards and Nicole Kaeding have just released the biannual Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors from the Cato Institute. The Report Card is on the Cato Institute’s most impressive publications sincedevelopments on the state level help...

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, which Nation and State Punish Success Most of All?

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation

I’ve shared some interested rankings on tax policy, including a map from the Tax Foundation showing which states have the earliest and latest Tax Freedom Days. There’s also a depressing table showing that the United States “earns” a lowly 94th place in a ranking of...