by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
One of the most significant developments in 2020 politics is how Democratic presidential candidates have embraced hard-left economic policies. Prominent analysts on the left have noted that even Joe Biden, ostensibly the most moderate of the candidates, has a very...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Is Greece the international version of New Jersey or is New Jersey the American version of Greece? Is New Jersey the national version of Chicago, or is Chicago the the local version of New Jersey? The answer is yes, regardless of how the question is phrased because –...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When the Congressional Budget Office released its Budget and Economic Outlook yesterday, almost everyone in Washington foolishly fixated on the estimate of $1 trillion-plus annual deficits. What’s far more important – and much more worrisome – is that the burden of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 27, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
About 10 years ago, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released this video to explain that America’s real fiscal problem is too much spending and that red ink is best viewed as a symptom of that problem. I wrote a primer on this issue two years ago, but I want to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m part of the small minority that thinks the big news from the United Kingdom is that “Brexit” will finally happen, thanks to Boris Johnson’s landslide victory last month. Most everyone else seems more focused on the latest development with the royal family. The...
