by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2022 | Blogs, Education, States
I’ve been pontificating in favor of school choice from the early days of this column, in part because I believe in the benefits of competition and in part because there’s such overwhelming evidence that government...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 20, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
The best feature of libertarians is that we are very principled and look at everything through the lens of the non-aggression principle. By contrast, the worst feature of politics, as explained by the Ninth Theorem of Government, is that it encourages people look at...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 12, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
What’s the world’s freest nation? I’ve suggested that Australia as an option if the United States ever suffers a Greek-style collapse, but my answer wasn’t based solely on that country’s level of freedom. Another option is to look at Economic Freedom of the World,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 28, 2018 | Blogs, States, Taxation
Yesterday, I wrote about the newest edition of Economic Freedom of the World, which is my favorite annual publication. Not far behind is the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index, which is sort of the domestic version of their equally fascinating (to a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Over the years, I’ve shared some rankings that are utterly preposterous. A writer for the Atlantic actually claimed that America was one of the world’s 17 most authoritarian nations. The statists at the OECD put together a ranking asserting that poverty is a bigger...
