by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, States
I don’t know if Dr. Seuss would appreciate my title, which borrows from his children’s classic. But given how I enjoy comparative rankings, I couldn’t help myself after perusing a new study from WalletHub that ranks states on their independence (or lack thereof)....
by Dan Mitchell | May 9, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
Earlier today, I gave a speech about populism and capitalism at the Free Market Road Show in Thessaloniki, Greece. But I’m not writing about my speech (read this and this if you want to get an idea of what I said about American policy under Trump). Instead, I want to...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
I wrote yesterday about the most recent OECD numbers on “Average Individual Consumption” in member nations. There was a very clear lesson in that data about the dangers of excessive government. The United States was at the top in this measure of household living...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 20, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
Back in 2014, I shared some data from the Tax Foundation that measured the degree to which various developed nations punished high-income earners. This measure of relative “progressivity” focused on personal income taxes. And that’s important because that levy often...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2016 | Blogs
The great contribution of western civilization is the notion that the power of government must be constrained by laws. This doesn’t mean that all laws (or even most laws) are good. But, as explained in this video, if the choice is between the “rule of man” (the...
