by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve been in Prague the past few days for a meeting of the European Resource Bank. I spoke today about a relatively unknown international bureaucracy called the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and I warned that it is going through a process of...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 8, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
According to leftists like Bernie Sanders, European nations have wonderfully generous welfare states financed by high tax rates on the rich. They’re partly right. There are very large welfare states in Europe (though I wouldn’t use “wonderfully” and “generous” to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 25, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Europe
I periodically share data showing that living standards are higher in the United States than in Europe. My goal isn’t to be jingoistic. Instead, I’m warning readers that we won’t be as prosperous if we copy our tax-and-spend friends on the other side of the Atlantic...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2017 | Blogs, Economic Growth
As I peruse the news, I periodically see headlines that are misleading in some fashion. And if the headline is sufficiently off-key or bizarre, I feel compelled to grouse. A disappointingly inaccurate headline about the capital sinking into the sea. A grossly...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Since I’m always reading and writing about government policies, both in America and around the world, I’m frequently reminded of H.L. Mencken’s famous observation about the shortcomings of “tolerable” government. If you take a close look at the world’s freest...
