by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Having just done a blog post where I explained that government should stay neutral in fights between labor and management in the private sector, let’s look at a real-world example to understand why. The millionaire owners and millionaire players from the National...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
There’s a significant debate now taking place in Washington – largely behind closed doors, but sometimes covered by the media – on whether fiscal conservatives should maintain a rigid no-tax-increase position. One side of the debate features Grover Norquist of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
People periodically ask me why I’m so down on David Cameron, the Prime Minster of the United Kingdom. I’ve already pointed out that his pre-election agenda was big government. And I’ve pointed out that his post-election record is more spending. (and you can read more...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In the past 10 years, the burden of federal spending has skyrocketed, more than doubling from$1.86 trillion in 2001 to an estimated $3.82 this year. President Bush deserves a lot of the blame thanks to the no-bureaucrat-left-behind bill that bloated the Department of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
One of my many frustrations of working in Washington is dealing with perpetual-motion-machine assertions. The classic example is Keynesian economics, which is based on the notion that you magically create additional economic activity by having the government spend...
