by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
The world is a laboratory, with lots of experiments to see if a nation can prosper with big government and pervasive intervention. The results are not encouraging. I’ve written about France being a basket case, over and over again. And I am equally pessimistic...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
I sometimes think that CF&P’s work of trying to change Washington must be akin to working at a church in the middle of Amsterdam’s red light district. In both cases, you’re wildly outnumbered by people with a different outlook on life. And it’s not that easy...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 24, 2014 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in the Washington Times on October 23, 2014. Public confidence in government is at or near all-time lows. According to Gallup, a mere 28 percent of the nation has a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in the legislative branch, while the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
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...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Health Care
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...
