by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
After the people of the United Kingdom voted to escape the European Union, I wondered whether the Conservative Party would “find a new Margaret Thatcher” to enact pro-market reforms and thus “take advantage of a golden opportunity” to “prosper in a post-Brexit...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 11, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a fan of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since I work mostly on fiscal issues, I don’t like the fact that the bureaucracy is an avid cheerleader for ever-higher taxes (which is disgustingly hypocritical since IMF...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
President Biden’s fiscal agenda of higher taxes and bigger government is not a recipe for prosperity. How much will it hurt the economy? Last month, I shared the results of a new study I wrote with Robert O’Quinn for the Club for Growth...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
There are lots of reasons (here are five of them) to dislike the version of the Biden tax hike that was approved by the tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives. From an economic perspective, it is bad for prosperity to penalize work,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Biden wants lots of class-warfare tax increases to fund a big increase in the welfare state. That would be bad news for the economy, but his acolytes claim that voters favor the president’s approach. Maybe that’s true in the United...
