by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
What do Joe Biden and Donald Trump have in common? Speaking earlier this year to the Mackinac Center in Michigan, I warned they both implicitly favor massive tax increases on ordinary households. If you don’t want to spend two minutes watching the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 2, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The economic policy lessons from Latin America are very clear. There’s one unambiguous success story (at least until the past couple of years), one semi-decent success story, and then a bunch of utter failures. What’s interesting (and tragic) is...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 20, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
I shared a clever video in 2011 exposing the hypocrisy of rich leftists. They claimed to support higher taxes, but refused to put their money where their mouths were. Now we have a new version. One difference is that the first video asked them on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I have been very pessimistic in recent years about the United Kingdom. Now, having just finished giving speeches in Bristol and London, I’m even more pessimistic. The core problem is that the burden of government spending has expanded dramatically in recent...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 16, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I have repeatedly pointed out that opponents of entitlement reform support big tax increases. And, as I explain in this segment from a recent presentation, they specifically support tax increases on lower-income and middle-class households. Why do I assert that they...
