by Dan Mitchell | Feb 18, 2022 | Blogs, Crime, Society, Taxation
My friends sometimes tell me that libertarians are too extreme because we tend to make “slippery slope” arguments against government expansions. I respond by pointing out that many slopes are very slippery. Especially when dealing with politicians and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2022 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
In my recent column listing the “Best and Worst News of 2021,” I included Joe Biden’s global tax cartel as one of the awful things that happened in the past 12 months. It’s bad news for workers, consumers, and shareholders that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy, Taxation
Remember back when Joe Biden said paying more tax is patriotic? He was being a hypocrite, of course, since he aggressively sought to lower his own tax burden. But he was also behaving exactly as “public choice” theory predicts. Politicians...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Biden’s tax-and-spend budget plan is based on dishonesty, and I’m just talking about his preposterous claim that a massive expansion of government has “zero cost.” On the outlay side of the fiscal ledger, he’s actually proposing to increase the...
by Brian Garst | Jul 30, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy, Regulations
Congress has again dipped its hand into a grab-bag of half-baked policies in search of “pay-fors” to finance a massive spending bill. Among the ideas they blindly pulled out and now want to slap onto “must pass” legislation is the imposition of...
