by Dan Mitchell | Nov 22, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
There is going to be a major battle over tax policy in 2025, triggered in part by an end-of-year deadline to extend (or not extend) major portions of the 2017 Trump tax reforms. But lawmakers presumably will also be dealing with some of Trump’s new proposals,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
In my two-part series on how best to reduce poverty (see here and here), I argued that the goal should be to help poor people climb the economic ladder, not to make indolence a comfortable way of life. Unfortunately, many Republicans and Democrats...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
As I wrote in both 2020 and earlier this year, Kamala Harris is worse than Joe Biden on economic issues. Heck, based on an analysis of spending proposals in the 2020 race, she’s even worse than Bernie Sanders. What worries me most is that...
by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I released my First Theorem of Government in 2015 and today I’m going to unveil the 17th iteration in the series. But I’ll confess upfront that I’m doing a bit of recycling. My latest Theorem is very similar to something I shared back in 2014. I...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
As part of my everything-you-need-to-know series, I shared an incomprehensible flowchart showing the ridiculous maze of federal welfare programs back in 2015. Today, let’s look at another visual that captures what’s wrong with the Washington welfare...
