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...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 8, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
According to leftists like Bernie Sanders, European nations have wonderfully generous welfare states financed by high tax rates on the rich. They’re partly right. There are very large welfare states in Europe (though I wouldn’t use “wonderfully” and “generous” to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2017 | Blogs, Europe
Defenders of civil liberties have won big victories against gun control in the United States. The fight certainly isn’t over, to be sure, but most Americans have some degree of freedom to own guns, carry guns, and protect themselves with guns. By contrast, the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 30, 2017 | Blogs, Europe, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
I like the main components of the Trump tax plan, particularly the sweeping reduction in the corporate tax rate. But, as I say at the beginning of this Fox Business interview, there’s a big difference between proposing a good idea and actually getting legislation...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
I wrote yesterday about the most recent OECD numbers on “Average Individual Consumption” in member nations. There was a very clear lesson in that data about the dangers of excessive government. The United States was at the top in this measure of household living...
