by Dan Mitchell | Jan 4, 2011 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs
The International Monetary Fund is a great place to work – at least for those who don’t feel guilty about getting extravagant salaries from taxpayers. And what do IMF bureaucrats do for the money we pay them (American taxpayers finance the biggest share of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2011 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Regulations, Taxation, VAT
The mid-term elections were a rejection of President Obama’s big-government agenda, but those results don’t necessarily mean better policy. We should not forget, after all, that Democrats rammed through Obamacare even after losing the special election to replace Ted...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Courtesy of Powerline Blog, we have a story about how Sweden’s bureaucratic health system made a mistake and…well, I’m not sure how to delicately phrase this…so let’s just give you the headline of the story: “Man’s penis amputated following misdiagnosis.” Here are...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Previous posts on this blog have featured charts showing that Obama’s policies are not working (see here and here). I even showed a cartoon making the same point. And I cited a column with data comparing Reagan and Obama. The Heritage Foundation has a very powerful...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
A picture says a thousand words.
