by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve
Art Laffer has a guaranteed spot in the liberty hall of fame because he popularized the common-sense notion that you can’t make any assumptions about tax rates and tax revenue without also figuring out what happens to taxable income. Lot’s of people on the left try to...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
This election season has seen lots of talk (and demagoguery) about whether investors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners should be hit with class-warfare tax policy. And there’s also been lots of debate about the best way of averting bankruptcy for Medicare,...
by Brian Garst | Aug 11, 2012 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
A lot has been said about the growing dependence of American citizens on the federal government, including in this great CF&P Economics 101 video narrated by Emily O’Neill. But there’s another kind of growing dependence about which we need to be...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2012 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’ve criticized centralization of power in Washington, and I’ve condemned efforts for global “economic governance.” The simple message is that bureaucrats shouldn’t try to control our lives, regardless of whether those pencil-pushers reside in Washington or the United...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I am automatically suspicious of the veracity of anything I see online, so I don’t necessarily believe this is a real receipt. But it could be, and that’s what’s disturbing. There are very few restrictions on the use of food stamps, so there’s nothing to stop a...
