by Dan Mitchell | May 28, 2013 | Blogs, Taxation
I shared some fascinating details the other day about how federal taxes inhibited the development of America’s beer industry. And I’ve used a story about buddies sharing beer to illustrate the dangers of redistribution and class warfare. But this blog hasn’t paid much...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I’m a proponent of a pro-growth and non-corrupt tax code. I mostly write and talk about the flat tax, though I’d be happy to instead accept a national sales tax if we could somehow get rid of the 16th Amendment and replace it with something so ironclad that even...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, States, Taxation
One of my favorite Cato Institute publications is the Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors, which is produced by my colleague Chris Edwards. The report card uses variables such as the burden of government spending and the degree of class warfare tax policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, States, Taxation
I have a handful of simple rules for good tax policy. Keep government small, since it’s impossible to have a reasonable tax system with a bloated welfare state. Keep tax rates low to minimize penalties against income, production, and wealth creation. Since capital...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending
I’ve almost exhausted my interest in California’s suicidal fiscal policy. How many times, after all, can you write about politicians over-taxing and over-spending to the point of economic ruin? But everyone has a cross to bear in life, and (if you allow me to mix my...
