by Dan Mitchell | Aug 29, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I know I’ve beaten this drum several times before, but the Wall Street Journal today has a very good explanation of why class-warfare tax policy will backfire. The Journal’s editorial focuses on what happened after the 2003 tax rate reductions. And below the excerpt,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 25, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Unfortunately, I’m not talking about President Obama, though the current occupant of the White House could learn a lot from a previous Democratic President.
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
National Review captures a key difference between Reagan and Obama, writing that Reagan was willing to incur short-run political pain to make America healthier and stronger. Obama, by contrast, has pursued the free-lunch Keynesian approach. Only time will tell...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2010 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
There’s been a bit of chatter in the blogosphere about a recent post on Ezra Klein’s blog featuring estimates from various economists about the revenue-maximizing tax rate. It won’t come as a surprise that people on the right tended to give lower estimates and folks...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Government Spending, Taxation
I’m still dealing with the statist echo chamber, having been hit with two additional attacks for the supposed sin of endorsing Reaganomics over Obamanomics (my responses to the other attacks can be found here and here). Some guy at the Atlantic Monthly named Steve...
