by Dan Mitchell | Apr 9, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Five former Democratic appointees to the Council of Economic Advisers have a column in today’s Washington Post asserting that we should not blame entitlements for America’s future fiscal problems. The good news is that they at least recognize that there’s a future...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
If you were exempted from taxation, you’d presumably be very happy. After all, even folks on the left do everything they can to minimize their tax payments. Now imagine that you are put in charge of tax policy. Like Elizabeth Warren, you obviously won’t volunteer to...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
A couple of decades can make a huge difference in the political and economic life of a jurisdiction. Two decades ago, Venezuela had not yet been subjected to the horror of Hugo Chavez and his destructive statism. Three decades ago, the pro-market success story of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 8, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I wrote last month about the risk of Trump harming American workers, consumers, and producers by pulling the United States out of NAFTA. That’s still a danger to the U.S. economy, but it’s been pushed to the back burner by a more immediate threat – the President’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
I sometimes sardonically comment about Democratic politicians playing Santa Claus, but Republicans can play that game as well. Trump and his allies in Congress recently agreed on a big-spending budget deal that lavishes more money on both the Pentagon and domestic...
