by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2026 | Blogs, Taxation
I periodically mock wealthy leftists who urge class-warfare taxes, and I’ve shared two amusing videos (here and here) exposing the hypocrisy of these people. They are hypocrites because the Treasury Department in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2026 | Blogs
I’m going to start today’s column by acknowledging a mistake. Two days ago, as part of my Best and Worst News of 2025, I didn’t include Zohran Mamdani’s election as Mayor of New York City because I viewed him only as “a theoretical threat.” Yes, I knew he...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2025 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation, Uncategorized
Who are the world’s worst fiscal hypocrites? Some people say the answer is the international bureaucrats at the OECD, IMF, and UN who push for higher taxes while receiving lavish tax-free salaries. Other people say the answer is politicians in the United...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute is famous for his Venn Diagrams that highlight intellectual incoherence and dishonesty. Taxation and incentives The War on Drugs The Minimum wage The Food and Drug Administration Consenting adults Trade Taxation and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In 2016, I criticized the International Monetary Fund for that bureaucracy’s accurate but hypocritical attack on Trump’s protectionism. The IMF constantly endorses higher taxes on wages, saving, investment, and other forms of productive...
