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...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
More than 12 years ago, I shared this video containing lots of data and research on the negative relationship between government spending and economic performance. Since then, I’ve share numerous additional studies showing that bigger government dampens...