by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2023 | Blogs
Last year’s three-part series on corporate tax rates (here, here, and here) primarily focused on the case for low rates in the United States. Today, we’re going to look at why the United Kingdom should have a low corporate tax rate. Though the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2023 | Blogs, Health Care
I’m routinely critical of the many ways that government intervention has created an expensive and inefficient health system in the United States. But there are countries where government causes even greater problems. So when I want to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 31, 2022 | Blogs, Education, States, Taxation
Continuing a tradition that began back in 2013, let’s look at the best and worst developments of the past year. Since I try to be optimistic (notwithstanding forces and evidence to the contrary), let’s start with the good news. I’ll start by...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2022 | Blogs
I’m a big believer in looking at long-run trends, particularly whether countries are experiencing convergence of divergence with regards to per-capita economic output. Poor nations normally should grow faster than rich nations, so we can...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Health Care
One thing that became very apparent during the pandemic is that government schools are mostly run for the benefit of bureaucrats rather than students. Not that any of us should have been surprised. The same is true for other...
