by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I wrote yesterday about the leadership race for the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. The most important goal is to find a leader who will deliver a “clean Brexit,” but I also pointed out that it would be very desirable to select a Prime Minister who will...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
The Conservative Party in the United Kingdom is in the process of selecting a new leader to replace the disastrous Theresa May as Prime Minister. The most important goal for the Tories is to find someone who will deliver a clean Brexit and thereby extricate the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
The folks at USA Today invited me to opine on fiscal policy, specifically whether the 2017 tax cut was a mistake because of rising levels of red ink. Here’s some of what I wrote on the topic, including the all-important point that deficits and debt are best understood...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Earlier today at the Friedman Conference in Australia, I spoke on the proper design of a tax system. My goal was to explain the problem of double taxation. I’ve repeatedly shared a flowchart to illustrate the pervasive double taxation in the current system (my example...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
As part of today’s sessions at the Friedman conference in Australia, I got to listen to Professor Tony Makin talk about the burden of government spending in Australia. I want to share several of his slides since he made some very cogent points. First, he pointed out...
