by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2018 | Blogs
While much of my analysis focuses on the mess created by Washington, I periodically show my ecumenical nature by sharing “Great Moments in State Government” and “Great Moments in Local Government.” I even occasionally share “Great Moments in Foreign Government.”...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
One of the great insights of “public choice” is that politicians engage in self-serving behavior just like everyone else. But there’s a profound difference between them and us. In the private economy, we can only make ourselves better off by providing value to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2018 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
If I was a citizen of the United Kingdom, I would have voted to leave the European Union for the simple reason that even a rickety lifeboat is better than a slowly sinking ship. More specifically, demographic changes and statist policies are a crippling...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
I realize that we’re in the midst of an important tax battle in Washington and that I should probably be writing about likely amendments to the Senate tax bill. The bad Rubio-Lee proposal to increase refundable tax credits (i.e., redistribution spending that...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2017 | Blogs, Europe
Since I’m in London for a couple of speeches, I’ve taken advantage of this opportunity to make sure I’m up to speed on Brexit. Regular readers may recall that I supported the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union. Simply stated, the European Union is a slowly...
