by Dan Mitchell | Nov 1, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
It’s not easy being a libertarian in the policy world of Washington. I view the flat tax as a timid intermediate step, with the real goal being a tiny federal government (like the Founding Fathers envisioned) that can be financed without any broad-based tax. Yet even...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 31, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve been arguing all year that a substantially lower corporate tax rate is the most vital goal of tax reform for reasons of competitiveness. And I continued to beat that drum in an interview last week with Fox Business. The Wall Street Journal agrees that the time...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 27, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
It’s depressing to see how Republicans are bungling the Obamacare issue. But it’s also understandable since it’s politically difficult to reduce handouts once people get hooked on the heroin of government dependency (a point I made even before Obamacare was enacted)....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I don’t like the income tax that’s been imposed by our overlords in Washington. Indeed, I’ve speculated whether October 3 is the worst day of the year because that’s the date when the Revenue Act of 1913 was signed into law. I don’t like state income taxes, either....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I spend a lot of my time fretting about how federal spending is going to become an ever-larger (and unsustainable) burden in the future. And I periodically will write about how I wish we still had the very small federal government envisioned by the Founding Fathers...
