by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Whether they are based on 10 questions or 144 questions, I can’t resist taking quizzes that supposedly identify one’s political or economic philosophy. The good news, according to various quizzes, is that I’m 92 percent minarchist and...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2022 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I wrote a few days ago about Biden’s plan to impose punitive double taxation on dividends. But that’s not an outlier in his budget. As you can see from this table from the Tax Foundation, he wants to violate the principles of...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve already written that massive spending increases for various bureaucracies is the most offensive part of Biden’s new budget. But I explicitly noted that these huge budgetary increases (well above the rate of inflation, unlike what’s happening...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 29, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Since the economy suffers when tax rates go up and the burden of government spending increases, there obviously are plenty of awful features in President Biden’s newly released budget. If I had to select a worst feature, though, I’d be tempted to...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I’ve identified seven reasons to oppose tax increases, but explain in this interview that the biggest reason is that it would be a mistake to give politicians more money to finance an ever-larger burden of government spending. I had two goals when responding this...
