by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
As part of my annual “hopes and fears” column, I expressed optimism at the start of 2021 that Joe Biden would steer the country back toward free trade after the economically debilitating protectionist mistakes of the Trump era. I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation, Trade
When President Biden proposed a 10-year tax hike of about $3 trillion in 2021, I was very critical. But my hostility was not because Biden is a Democrat. I’ve also condemned Republicans who support higher taxes...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
The theory of “public choice” teaches us how politicians do dumb things because of perverse incentives. To illustrate, let’s look at something really dumb: sugar subsidies. I wrote about these inane subsidies back in 2018. In that column, I shared...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 13, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
At the risk of understatement, Donald Trump’s trade policy was a miserable failure. But the 2020 election did not lead to any changes. Biden also has been a protectionist. In some ways, he’s been even worse than Trump. A rather...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2023 | Blogs, Trade
Back in 2019, I released this video to explain how the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been a net plus, helping to lower trade taxes and other barriers to cross-border commerce. I’m normally not a fan of international bureaucracies. But, unlike entities...
