by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
Congressman Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, has a rather persuasive column in the Washington Post about the negative impact of President Obama’s big-government agenda. … the Obama administration’s anti-business, hyper-regulatory, pro-tax agenda has fueled...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I’ve already explained why the Department of Housing and Urban Development should be eliminated, but a superb column in the Wall Street Journal by my old friend Jim Bovard has my blood boiling. After reading Jim’s piece, I no longer want to merely abolish HUD. I want...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
Paul Krugman recently argued that a fake threat from space aliens would be good for the economy because the people of earth would waste a bunch of money building unnecessary defenses. That was a bit loopy, as I noted a few days ago, but other Keynesians also have been...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Every so often, I can’t resist condemning someone for grossly immoral behavior. I beat up on Robert Murphy for stealing the value of someone else’s property. I attacked Olga Stefou for symbolizing the looter-class mentality of Greece. And I mocked Michael Wolfensohn...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Wow. Not even a pretense of caring about fiscal responsibility. Keep the status quo, even if it means America is doomed to suffer a Greek-style budget meltdown. Those were my thoughts when I heard that Harry Reid appointed Senators Kerry, Murray, and Baucus to the...
