by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
Since I focus on public finance, I think California is crazy because of punitive taxes and reckless spending policies. But I can understand why other people think California is crazy, period. This is a state, after all, where politicians come up with bizarre ideas...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Energy, Taxation
I’ve been writing about proposed carbon taxes since 2012. My message is simple and straightforward. It’s possible to design a carbon tax that is theoretically appealing. Simply use all the revenue to get rid of some other tax that causes greater economic harm, such as...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Considering that America’s Founders created a very small central government that operated for more than 100 years without any income tax (or any other broad-based tax), it’s very disappointing that Washington is now consuming more than 20 percent of our nation’s...
by Brian Garst | Jan 14, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Townhall.com on January 8, 2018. A debate has been raging for years over whether the world’s most widely used herbicide, glyphosate, is carcinogenic. Like so many other issues relating to the environment, the discussion has been marked not by...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I have a fantasy of junking the entire corrupt tax system and adopting a simple and fair flat tax. I have an even bigger fantasy of shrinking the size and scope of the federal government to what America’s Founders intended, in which case...
