by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2025 | Blogs, States
Why is the private sector efficient and the government inefficient? I answered that question back in 2017, noting that there is feedback (both positive and negative) in the private sector. With government, by contrast, it seems that there are no consequences...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 30, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Yesterday’s column mocked the the socialist mayoral candidate who won the Democratic primary in New York City. As I noted, Zohran Mamdani is an AOC-style hard-core leftist who wants to travel in the wrong direction as far and as fast as Javier...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
We’re approaching the mid-point of the year and I’ve already shared three candidates for counter-tweet of the year. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think capitalism is correlated with poverty. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think China...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the most unfortunate features of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is that it expands the deduction for state and local taxes, thus weakening one of the best provisions of the 2017 tax package. This is bad news since it is foolish to have a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, States, Taxation
In my efforts to promote economic liberty, I usually focus on real-world evidence. Sometimes this means looking at one policy (Norway’s wealth tax, for instance) and examining what happened (lots of rich people moving to Switzerland). But often it means looking...
