by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2017 | Blogs
Trump has been President for more than 200 days and those of us who want more economic liberty don’t have many reasons to be happy. Obamacare hasn’t been repealed, the tax code hasn’t been reformed, and wasteful spending hasn’t been cut. The only glimmer of hope is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Time for another trip down Memory Lane to the early years of the Obama Administration. Two days ago, I wrote about the market-wrecking price controls in Obamacare. And yesterday, I shared a new study exposing the utter failure of Obama’s Cash-for-Clunkers scheme. Now...
by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2017 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Every time I’ve gone overseas in the past six months, I’ve been peppered with questions about Donald Trump. It doesn’t matter whether my speech was about tax reform, entitlements, fiscal crisis, or tax competition, most people wanted to know what I think about The...
by Dan Mitchell | May 4, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the points I repeatedly make is that big government breeds corruption for the simple reason that politicians have more power to reward friends and punish enemies. It’s especially nauseating when big companies learn that they can get in bed with big government...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
President Obama gave his farewell speech two nights ago, orating for more than 50 minutes. As noted by the Washington Examiner, his remarks were “longer than the good-bye speeches of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined.” But this wasn’t because he...