by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
When leftists (or misguided rightists) tell me that Americans are under-taxed and that the government has lots of red ink because of insufficient revenue, I sometimes will direct them to the Office of Management and Budget’s Historical...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I wrote last week about the ever-expanding burden of government spending in California. And that was after writing two columns last year (here and here) about the state’s economic decline. But sometimes a specific story is more compelling than broad economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
It’s fun to write about big-picture issues such as tax reform (for instance, should we have a flat tax or national sales tax?). It’s also fun to write about contentious issues such as whether there should be tax increases or whether the tax code should be based on...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
Fundamental tax reform is back on the agenda, with House Republicans promising a vote this year on a national sales tax, so I dug into C-Span’s archives so I could share a few of my thoughts from 2007 on the Fair Tax. As you might suspect, the principles I believed in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of the Internal Revenue Service, but our awful (and anti-growth) tax system is mostly the fault of politicians. Ever since that dark day in 1913 when the income tax was enacted, presidents and members of...
