Daniel J. Mitchell is a top expert on tax reform and supply-side tax policy at the Cato Institute. Mitchell is a strong advocate of a flat tax and international tax competition. Prior to joining Cato, Mitchell was a senior fellow with The Heritage Foundation, and an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee. He also served on the 1988 Bush/Quayle transition team and was Director of Tax and Budget Policy for Citizens for a Sound Economy. His articles can be found in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, and Washington Times. He is a frequent guest on radio and television and a popular speaker on the lecture circuit. Mitchell holds bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I don't like giving international bureaucrats tax-free salaries. And it really galls me when they use their privileged positions to promote statism. So you can understand why I'm not a big fan of the International M http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/24/the-imf-is-the-doctor-kevorkian-of-global-economic-policy-n1605264 566bca31-2d09-4b29-954d-6119050a108c Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Senator Rand Paul is perhaps even better than I thought he would be. He already is playing a very substantive role on policy, ranging from his actions of big-picture issues, such as his proposed budget that would... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/23/rand-paul-debunks-the-shameful-demagoguery-against-apple-n1604117 994d3782-85b4-4dbb-962c-d7a65ed6e85f Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT The Senate is holding a Kangaroo Court designed to smear Apple for not voluntarily coughing up more tax revenue than the company actually owes. Here are four things you need to know. Apple is fully complying... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/22/four-reasons-to-applaud-apples-tax-planning-n1602882 bee5567e-df91-4006-9375-90f80f2fb7d1 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I’ve shared some nightmare stories of excessive and mindless government regulation. The Food and Drug Administration raiding a dairy for the terrible crime of selling unpasteurized milk to people who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/21/strangled-by-red-tape-n1601890 7e6da05c-0733-4041-8ee6-cb3bd583c49f Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I was very pleased to report the other day that the people of France overwhelmingly favor spending cuts, even when they were asked a biased question that presupposed that Keynesian-style spending increases would... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/20/ufos-faked-moon-landings-and-fiscal-policy-n1600932 b7f773e6-d8d9-4d40-8311-fd6ac0d0e38c Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I was a bit of a juvenile delinquent. I semi-confessed that I may have set off fireworks in a stairwell at my high school. And I’ve already confessed my role in an “attack” on a float... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/19/great-moments-in-human-rights-mandated-emotional-support-animals-in-college-dorms-n1600497 c4095c39-81c8-43df-9558-d200b6e28b66 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I have to start this post with a big caveat. I’m not a fan of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The international bureaucracy is infamous for using American tax dollars to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/18/shocking-oecd-study-admits-income-taxes-penalize-growth-n1600002 73d51bfb-d631-46d0-a721-a72826740d90 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I’m in Europe as part of a six-nation speaking tour, participating in the Free Market Road Show. My first speech was this week in Greece, which is infamous for a government that is insanely wasteful, even... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/17/grim-news-from-greece-about-grasping-government-n1599011 ac5ecff8-bc3d-4325-9e89-32cf849712cb Fri, 17 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Here’s another entry for our UK vs US Government Stupidity Contest. Or perhaps it belongs in the great-moments-in-government-waste category. The spendaholics in Washington have squandered $400,000 on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/16/is-underwear-a-legitimate-function-of-the-federal-government-n1597929 93ccc4a9-dd33-4232-afde-3088d57f1d71 Thu, 16 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I like to think I’m a reasonably savvy observer of public opinion and international economics, but every so often I’m stunned by some bit of data. Several years ago, for instance, I was very surprised... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/15/hell-has-officially-frozen-over-french-support-spending-cuts-n1596840 50fe1304-5c60-46b6-af03-e14d19922f00 Wed, 15 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Are there any fact checkers at the New York Times? Since they’ve allowed some glaring mistakes by Paul Krugman (see here and here), I guess the answer is no. But some mistakes are worse than... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/14/another-example-of-editorialpage-fiction-at-the-new-york-times-n1594148 706f4f62-0c87-49a2-8fb0-df1b6ba80d53 Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I’ve been peppered with all sorts of questions about immigration this week. Many of them deal with the Heritage Foundation study, including the “dynamic scoring” issue and Jason Richwine’s... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/13/the-pros-and-cons-of-amnesty-n1593507 a5281660-c282-479e-8e1f-5a251e4bdf86 Mon, 13 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I’ve written many times about how investors, entrepreneurs, small business owners and other successful people migrate from high-tax states to low-tax states. Well, the same thing happens internationally, as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/12/going-galt-more-americans-vote-with-their-feet-against-obama-n1593195 ff174da7-9095-43d7-ae19-d0a801508c30 Sun, 12 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT I’m happy to bash the IRS, but I usually try to explain that our anger should be focused on the politicians who created the corrupt, 74,000-page tax code. But sometimes the IRS deserves some negative... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/11/great-moments-in-government-the-irs-apologizes-for-bias-while-denying-bias-n1592864 46483637-1e6e-415b-8560-8ca57b173658 Sat, 11 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT When I was becaming interested in public policy, I thought Jimmy Carter was the epitome of a bad President. But as I began to learn economics, I realized that Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson also were terrible and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DanielJMitchell/2013/05/10/which-presidents-are-right-about-government-n1592107 7d1e017b-c34a-40a2-a6dc-cd95ef962ea6 Fri, 10 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT