by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Every time I write a column criticizing Trump’s protectionism, I get pushback. Some of the resistance is from people who genuinely think trade barriers are a good thing, and I routinely respond by asking them to ponder these eight questions or these five charts. But I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies, but they’re not universally bad. Yes, we almost always get a bad policy agenda from the left-leaning political appointees who run these organizations. But it’s also true that the professional economists at these...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 7, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
The Swiss people are normally very sensible when asked to vote in national referendums. Here are some recent results. In 2010, nearly 60 percent of the electorate rejected a class-warfare income tax proposal. In 2014, Swiss voters overwhelmingly killed a minimum-wage...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I write constantly (some would say incessantly and annoyingly) about entitlement spending. And I occasionally write about discretionary spending. It’s time to address the budget in a comprehensive fashion. Let’s look at five charts to put everything in context and to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
I sometimes sardonically comment about Democratic politicians playing Santa Claus, but Republicans can play that game as well. Trump and his allies in Congress recently agreed on a big-spending budget deal that lavishes more money on both the Pentagon and domestic...
