Is Dan Mitchell a Jeb Bush-style squish on taxes?
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Another Edition of “I Can’t Believe Hillary Clinton Actually Said That”
Will this be the “spread the wealth around” of the 2016 campaign?
Has Italy Passed the Point of No Return for Statism and Big Government?
Decades of large government are taking their toll on Italy. Past generations mortgaged the future to support unsustainable policies, and now the bills are coming due.
Another Example of Government Thuggery – and another Reason Why Decent and Moral People Are Libertarians
The government has lots of ways to steal your money without charging you with a crime.
Washington’s Nauseatingly Corrupt Culture
Who is getting undeserved wealth thanks to influence peddling in Washington?
Wasting Money Is Washington’s Favorite Activity
Senator Tom Coburn’s 2014 Wastebook is out with a new, grisly collection of boondoggles and pork-barrel spending.
The U.S. vs U.K. Wimpiness Contest
Which freakout is worse?
Who You Going to Believe on Infrastructure Spending: The IMF in August or the IMF in October?
The International Monetary Fund isn’t my least-favorite international bureaucracy. That special honor belongs to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, largely because of its efforts to undermine tax competition and protect the interests of the…
Washington’s Action Plan for Ebola: Squalid Waste and Pork-Barrel Spending by the CDC and NIH, Seasoned with Corruption at HHS
Years ago, I shared a very funny poster that suggests that more government is hardly ever the right answer to any question. Yet in Washington, the standard response to any screwup by government is to make government even bigger. Sort of Mitchell’s Law on steroids. And…
The New York Times Accidentally Admits Superiority of Privatized Social Security
I confess that I get a bit of perverse pleasure when a left-leaning media outlet screws up and inadvertently shares information that helps the cause of limited government. A New York Times columnist, for instance, pushed for a tax-hiking fiscal agreement back in 2011…