by Dan Mitchell | Mar 19, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve been very critical of Trump’s protectionism. I explained why he was wrong before the 2016 election and I’ve continued to argue he is misguided ever since he became President. Most recently, I even expressed hope that Congress would overturn his new taxes on...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 13, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
The biggest challenge, when I talk to politicians about the free-market agenda, is convincing them that they should restrain the growth of government. To be more specific, I think they often understand and accept the argument that ever-rising fiscal burdens are bad...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Every time I write a column criticizing Trump’s protectionism, I get pushback. Some of the resistance is from people who genuinely think trade barriers are a good thing, and I routinely respond by asking them to ponder these eight questions or these five charts. But I...
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 Brian Garst | Feb 15, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Government Spending, Taxation
Public opinion on the tax reform bill is improving and is likely to continue to do so as workers see their take-home pay increase despite the repeated lies of the bill’s opponents. But that’s not the end of the story. The reductions included in the reform...
