by Dan Mitchell | Nov 2, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Yesterday, I shared some jokes about Joe Biden (since updated with a very amusing addendum). Today, to keep everything fair, we’re going to make fun of Trump. We’ll start with Trump playing the role of James Bond. Next, let’s look at Trump’s view of the world with...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I wrote last year about Democrats favoring certain tax breaks that overwhelmingly benefit the rich. The state and local tax deduction is an obvious example, but Democrats also are big fans of the tax exemption for municipal bond interest and other provisions that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Given my big miss in 2016, I’m not sure why anyone would be interested in my election predictions, but I’ve received several emails asking me to offer up my guesses for 2020 (perhaps some of them are long-time readers who remember 2010, when I actually did a good...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
The good news is that the election season is almost over. The bad news is that we’ll have a president next year who does not embrace classical liberal principles of free markets and social tolerance. But that doesn’t mean Trump and Biden are equally bad. Depending on...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Way back in early 2017, I warned in an interview that Trump would be a big spender (sadly, I was right). But I wasn’t being reflexively anti-Trump. Here’s a clip from that same program where I speculated that Trump might have the political skill to win support from...
