Blog Posts: Daniel J. Mitchell

Overhauling CBO and JCT Is a Real Test of GOP Resolve, not the ‘Pledge to America’

September 30, 2010.

Why Are We Paying $100 Million to International Bureaucrats in Paris so They Can Endorse Obama’s Statist Agenda?

September 27, 2010.

Warren Buffett: Good Investor, Crummy Economist

September 27, 2010.

It’s Simple to Balance the Budget without Higher Taxes

September 22, 2010.

New Orwellian Tax Scheme in England Would Require All Paychecks Go Directly to the Tax Authority

September 21, 2010.

Russian Government Announces 20 Percent Reduction in Number of Bureaucrats

September 21, 2010.

Obama’s Wants a 23.9% Capital Gains Tax, but the Rate Actually Will Be Much Higher Because of Inflation

September 20, 2010.

Giving Cops Bad Incentives to Harass Victimless Behavior

September 20, 2010.

More Evidence of the Failed Stimulus

September 17, 2010.

Keynes Was Wrong on Stimulus, but the Keynesians Are Wrong on Just about Everything

September 13, 2010.

Why Are Statists so Sensitive About Cuba?

September 12, 2010.

Overpaid and Undertaxed

September 9, 2010.

Now He Tells Us…

September 9, 2010.

A Debate Between John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama

September 8, 2010.

Obama’s New Stimulus Schemes: Same Song, Umpteenth Verse

September 6, 2010.

Crocodile Dundee vs Australia’s Tax Police

September 2, 2010.

More Arguments against a Value-Added Tax

September 1, 2010.

Dishonest British Budgeting…Just Like We Do It in America

August 30, 2010.

The Laffer Curve Strikes Again

August 30, 2010.

New York Times Seeks Higher Taxes on the ‘Rich’ as Prelude to Higher Taxes on the Middle Class

August 24, 2010.

Congressional Budget Office Says We Can Maximize Long-Run Economic Output with 100 Percent Tax Rates

August 22, 2010.

Don’t Be Afraid of the Chinese Economic Tiger

August 20, 2010.

What’s the Ideal Point on the Laffer Curve?

August 18, 2010.

A Spending Quiz from the ‘Rebel Economist’

August 13, 2010.

When Keynesians Attack, Part II

August 11, 2010.

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