Daniel Mitchell
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Three Reasons to Reject Biden’s Tax Harmonization Scheme for “Global Minimum Taxation”
“It goes without saying that if politicians are able to create a tax cartel, it will merely be a matter of time before they ratchet up the tax rate. Simply stated, they won’t have to worry about an exodus of jobs and investment because all countries will be obliged to have the same bad approach.”…
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Government Schools: More Bureaucracy, Lower Performance, and Higher Costs
“We got more teachers with all that money, but the main outcome was a massive expansion in the number of education administrators and other bureaucrats.” ~ Daniel J. Mitchell
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Is France Suffering from Excessive Austerity?
“Given that the United States, with its medium-sized government, does so much better than France, with its large-sized government, how can Rokhaya Diallo reconcile those numbers with her dogmatic view that society will be better off if government is even bigger?”~ Daniel J. Mitchell
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State and Local Governments Should Not Get a Bailout – either from Congress or the Federal Reserve
“A Biden Administration likely will be able to give states and localities a bailout, even if Congress doesn’t approve a new ‘stimulus,’ and even if the Trump Administration doesn’t extend the Federal Reserve’s authority. But at least the incoming Biden people would have to jump through a few hoops.” ~ Daniel J. Mitchell
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The Adverse Economic Consequences of Higher Tax Rates
“The political impact will be that “the rich” pay more. The economic impact will be less capital formation and entrepreneurship, and those are the changes that hurt the vast majority of us who aren’t rich.” ~ Daniel J. Mitchell
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Coronavirus and the Two Americas
“Coronavirus has exposed the fault line between those who are subsidized by government and those who pay for government. The people who live off the government, either directly or indirectly, have relatively comfortable lives – all financed by the people who deal with much greater levels of hardship and uncertainty.” ~ Dan Mitchell
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Trump Cutting the Budget? Don’t Believe It
It’s like being on a diet and claiming progress because you’re gaining two pounds each month rather than five pounds.
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The Adverse Impact of Government Bureaucracy on Private Employment
When I did this video about public-sector compensation almost 10 years ago, I focused on why it is unfair that bureaucrats get much higher levels of compensation than people working in the private sector. Today, let’s consider the economic consequences of excessive bureaucracy. And what will make this column particularly interesting is that I’ll be citing some research from economists at the International…
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Three Reasons to Reject Biden’s Tax Harmonization Scheme for “Global Minimum Taxation”
“It goes without saying that if politicians are able to create a tax cartel, it will merely be a matter of time before they ratchet up the tax rate. Simply stated, they won’t have to worry about an exodus of jobs and investment because all countries will be obliged to have the same bad approach.”…
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Government Schools: More Bureaucracy, Lower Performance, and Higher Costs
“We got more teachers with all that money, but the main outcome was a massive expansion in the number of education administrators and other bureaucrats.” ~ Daniel J. Mitchell
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Is France Suffering from Excessive Austerity?
“Given that the United States, with its medium-sized government, does so much better than France, with its large-sized government, how can Rokhaya Diallo reconcile those numbers with her dogmatic view that society will be better off if government is even bigger?”~ Daniel J. Mitchell
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State and Local Governments Should Not Get a Bailout – either from Congress or the Federal Reserve
“A Biden Administration likely will be able to give states and localities a bailout, even if Congress doesn’t approve a new ‘stimulus,’ and even if the Trump Administration doesn’t extend the Federal Reserve’s authority. But at least the incoming Biden people would have to jump through a few hoops.” ~ Daniel J. Mitchell
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The Adverse Economic Consequences of Higher Tax Rates
“The political impact will be that “the rich” pay more. The economic impact will be less capital formation and entrepreneurship, and those are the changes that hurt the vast majority of us who aren’t rich.” ~ Daniel J. Mitchell
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Coronavirus and the Two Americas
“Coronavirus has exposed the fault line between those who are subsidized by government and those who pay for government. The people who live off the government, either directly or indirectly, have relatively comfortable lives – all financed by the people who deal with much greater levels of hardship and uncertainty.” ~ Dan Mitchell
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Trump Cutting the Budget? Don’t Believe It
It’s like being on a diet and claiming progress because you’re gaining two pounds each month rather than five pounds.
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•
The Adverse Impact of Government Bureaucracy on Private Employment
When I did this video about public-sector compensation almost 10 years ago, I focused on why it is unfair that bureaucrats get much higher levels of compensation than people working in the private sector. Today, let’s consider the economic consequences of excessive bureaucracy. And what will make this column particularly interesting is that I’ll be citing some research from economists at the International…