by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2023 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation
In 2020 and 2021, I wrote a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) about Biden’s class-warfare tax agenda. And I also wrote a series of columns about some of his worst ideas. Biden wants America to have the developed world’s highest...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2023 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
While I have profound worries about the future of fiscal policy, I wonder if developments in monetary policy are an even greater threat to individual liberty. More specifically, I’ve written a five-part series about governments and their “War Against...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
There are some very important long-run demographic and cultural trends in the United States. The aging of the population – and the concomitant problem of poorly designed entitlement programs – probably belongs at the top of the list. But another...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
When leftists (or misguided rightists) tell me that Americans are under-taxed and that the government has lots of red ink because of insufficient revenue, I sometimes will direct them to the Office of Management and Budget’s Historical...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I wrote last week about the ever-expanding burden of government spending in California. And that was after writing two columns last year (here and here) about the state’s economic decline. But sometimes a specific story is more compelling than broad economic...
