by Dan Mitchell | Dec 18, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The fact that there’s widespread support for spending caps from groups that support limited government is hardly a surprise. After all, we have lots of real world evidence that limits on the growth of government spending – if sustained for multi-year periods – can...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2015 | Blogs, Taxation
If you owned a restaurant and wanted to generate more income and boost your bottom line, would you double your prices thinking that this would double your revenue? Of course not. You would understand that a lot of your patrons would simply dine elsewhere. And if they...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
With all of the GOP presidential candidates proposing varying plans to reduce the tax burden and reform the tax system, I’m constantly asked which one is best. But that’s hard to answer because all of the proposals have features I like…as well as some features that...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 4, 2015 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy. It used to engage in relatively benign activities such as data collection, but now focuses on promoting policies to expand the size and scope of government. That’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2015 | Blogs, Taxation
Why does the tax code require more than 10,000,000 words and more than 75,000 pages? There are several reasons and none of them are good. But if you had to pick one cause for all the mess, it would be the fact that politicians have worked with interest groups and...
