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 | Feb 19, 2026 | Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I wrote last June that Zohran Mamdani’s platform for New York City was akin to a suicide note. Today, let’s see how the “Caviar Communist” wants to deal with fiscal policy. But let’s first look at two graphs so we can understand New York City’s finances....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Over the years, I’ve written multi-column series comparing Texas and California, as well as New York and Florida. The takeaway from these columns is that New York and California are declining when Texas and Florida are rising. I’ve also...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
When I wrote about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a few months ago, here was my main takeaway. Mamdani is an AOC-style hard-core leftist who wants to travel in the wrong direction as far and as fast as Javier Milei is traveling...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 1, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve written a couple of columns (in 2016 and earlier this year) about how upper-income taxpayers finance the vast majority of the welfare state. The data I shared involved the federal budget in Washington. And I explained that the Bernie-AOC crowd,...