by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
In my research and travels, I come across all sorts of strange stories about tax policy. Sometimes I learn about bizarrely foolish tax policies, such as the German tax on online coffee sales that loses money for government. Sometimes I learn about heartening protests...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Welfare and Entitlements
I very rarely feel sorry for statists. After all, these are the people who think that their feelings of envy and inadequacy justify bigger and more coercive government. And I get especially irked when I think about how their authoritarian policies will hurt the most...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the many challenges of being libertarian is that people sometimes think you’re naive about foreign policy (sort of like the first entry in this 24-part satirical collage of libertarians). In large part, I think that’s because they confuse non-interventionism...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 30, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Using a comparison of Jamaica and Singapore, I recently argued that growth should trump inequality. Simply stated, a growing economic pie is much better for poor people that incentive-sapping redistribution programs that trap people in dependency. In other words,...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2014 | Blogs, Economics
With Crimea potentially breaking away from Ukraine and the ongoing risk of conflict, it’s time to revisit the topic. I explained a few weeks ago that decentralization was one way of defusing the crisis. Now Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute has...
