by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Experts in the field of political marketing periodically tell me that you need to have sympathetic victims when trying to change policy. When pushing for Obamacare repeal, highlight a family who lost its health plan and now has to pay twice as much for insurance. When...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
Time for a confession. My left-wing friends are correct. I’m an idiot. Why? Because I’m an anti-tax libertarian, yet I keep writing favorably about a provision that will raise my taxes. I’m talking specifically about the provision, currently in both...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve written a couple of times to explain why the deduction for state and local taxes should be eliminated as part of pro-growth tax reform. One of my main arguments, as I pointed out at the beginning of this interview, is that Republicans are generally unwilling to...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2017 | Blogs, States
Perhaps because there’s no hope for genuine Obamacare repeal and limited hope for sweeping tax reform, I’m having to look outside of Washington for good news. I wrote the other day about the very successful tax reforms in North Carolina. So now let’s travel to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 7, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, States, Taxation
Back at the end of April, President Trump got rolled in his first big budget negotiation with Congress. The deal, which provided funding for the remainder of the 2017 fiscal year, was correctly perceived as a victory for Democrats. How could this happen, given that...
