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...
by Dan Mitchell | May 22, 2019 | Blogs, Taxation
With two dozens candidates in the race, it’s not feasible to review the fiscal and economic plans of every potential nominee for the Democratic Party. But that doesn’t mean I’ll be silent. I’ve written several times about Crazy Bernie’s agenda, and I’ve recently...
