by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 19, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Daily Caller on March 19, 2013. Government is larger than ever, and Americans are growing increasingly wary about expansions of federal power. To overcome public objections and justify the continued growth of government, politicians...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 8, 2013 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Forbes on March 8, 2013. Bureaucrats at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently conjured a problem to justify a new assault on tax competition. In a recent report titled, “Addressing Base Erosion...
by Brian Garst | Nov 25, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Daily Caller on November 25, 2012. If Mitt Romney thought the gotcha-obsessed political press would let him escape into obscurity following his election defeat, he has rather quickly been disabused of the notion. After Romney suggested in...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Nov 20, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Forbes on November 20, 2012. The economy is not recovering as it should. Unemployment remains high and post-recession growth has been tepid at best. As Americans look to their elected officials for solutions, lawmakers are spurning pro-growth...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 23, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Forbes on September 23, 2012. With the economy sputtering toward what can at best be described as a meager recovery, it seems like an obviously poor time to consider raising taxes on any form of energy. That’s particularly true when it comes...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 18, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on August 18, 2012. Imagine you’re a legislator in a country with a bloated budget of almost $4 trillion and a record level of spending that requires massive deficits and could mean job-killing tax increases. Now...