by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2026 | Blogs, Taxation
Class-warfare tax policy is always a bad idea. Economists generally don’t like class-warfare policies because it is foolish to impose high marginal tax rates on productive behaviors such as investment and entrepreneurship. Politicians should not like...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Ever since unveiling my 20th Theorem of Government, I’ve mostly shared bad news about jurisdictions with profligate politicians (France, Brazil, Colombia, Maryland, Washington, Australia, Germany, and Canada). My only positive...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I periodically explain that the world is a laboratory, filled with experiments that teach (or should teach) that we get more prosperity with free markets and limited government. Today, let’s look at the global laboratory and see what it teaches us...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
When I write about how we can learn by examining tax policy in other nations, it’s normally because there’s an important policy lesson. It’s unfortunate to have an income tax. Adopting a VAT leads to bigger government. Wealth taxes are extraordinarily...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Libertarians often make the claim that taxation is a form of robbery, and some of them (especially the anarcho-capitalists) even assert that it is a form of slavery. Since I’m an economist, I stick to less flamboyant arguments about the adverse...
