by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
President Biden’s fiscal agenda of higher taxes and bigger government is not a recipe for prosperity. How much will it hurt the economy? Last month, I shared the results of a new study I wrote with Robert O’Quinn for the Club for Growth...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 7, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
There are many reasons to reject Joe Biden’s proposal for higher corporate tax rates, and I listed many of them when I narrated this nine-minute video. This two-minute video from the Tax Foundation has a similar message. The main message is that...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending
A couple of days ago, I shared the most-recent data about “actual individual consumption” in nations that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. My goal was to emphasize my oft-stated point about people in the United...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
More than 12 years ago, I shared this video containing lots of data and research on the negative relationship between government spending and economic performance. Since then, I’ve share numerous additional studies showing that bigger government dampens...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 22, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Writing last week about the new edition of Economic Freedom of the World, I largely focused on the jurisdictions that got high scores (Hong Kong, Singapore, and New Zealand) and countries that got low scores (Venezuela in last place, of...
