by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
If I was Captain Ahab in a Herman Melville novel, my Moby Dick would be the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. I have spent more than 15 years fighting that Paris-based bureaucracy. Even to the point that the OECD threatened to throw me in a...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
Fundamental tax reform such as a flat tax should accomplish three big goals. Lower tax rates in order to encourage more productive behavior. Get rid of double taxation in order to enable saving and investment. End distorting preferences in order to reduce economically...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
As Ronald Reagan pointed out many years ago, Washington is a company town. But rather than being home to a firm or industry that earns money by providing value to willing consumers, the “company” is a federal government that uses a coercive tax system to provide...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
I was recently interviewed on Fox Business Network about Trump’s policies and the economy, and the discussion jumped around from issues such as border-adjustable taxation to energy regulation. Though the central theme of the discussion was whether Trump had good ideas...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 26, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
Last year, I explained the theoretical argument against antitrust laws, pointing out that monopoly power generally exists only when government intervenes. There’s monopoly power when government takes over a sector of the economy (i.e., air traffic control, Postal...
