If There’s a Grand Bargain, Taxpayers Should Get a Tax Cut rather than a Tax Hike

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation

The Washington metropolitan area has become America’s wealthiest region because trillions of dollars are taken every year from the productive sector of the economy and then divvied up by the politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists and interest groups that benefit from...

For any Fiscal Policy Question, Spending Restraint Is the Answer

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 24, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending

Okay, I’ll admit the title of this post is an exaggeration. How to fix the mess at the IRS is a fiscal policy question, and that requires tax reform rather than spending restraint. But allow me a bit of literary license. We just had a big debt limit battle in...

Welfare Fraud Is another Reason to Replace the IRS with a Flat Tax

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2013 | Blogs, Taxation

One of my missions in life is fundamental tax reform. I would like to replace the corrupt internal revenue code with a simple and fair flat tax. Though what I really want is a tax system that minimizes the damage of extracting money from the productive sector of the...

The Unrecognized Shutdown Victory

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

I recently gave five reasons why the shutdown fight was worthwhile and my number one reason was that it’s better to be on offense than defense. It seems I’m not the only one to reach this sensible conclusion. Here’s some of what Fred Barnes wrote today for the Wall...

Lung Cancer, Heroin, and Government Spending

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending

If this blog was an episode of Jeopardy, the response to the title of this post would be “Name three things that Dan Mitchell doesn’t like.” But this blog isn’t a game show. It’s a serious forum* for discussing how we protect freedom and prosperity from ever-expanding...