by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, VAT
Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana has triggered a spat among policy wonks with his recent comments expressing sympathy for a value-added tax (VAT). Kevin Williamson of National Review is arguing that a VAT will probably be necessary because there is no hope of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Time for some much-needed positive news. Ordinary taxpayers are slowly but surely figuring out that federal workers are overpaid and underworked. Here are some of the details from the story in the Washington Post. More than half of Americans say they think that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner is an expert on corruption and sleaze inside the beltway, and his column this morning is a perfect example. He shows how corrupt insiders in Alaska use something known as the “Rent-an-Eskimo” scam to pull in hundreds of millions...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 15, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, VAT, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m mystified that some conservatives and libertarians are sympathetic to the idea that Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, might be a good candidate in 2012. The main challenge for our nation is the growing burden of government, so it seems that this would...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 14, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
For the umpteenth time, a Washington Post columnist has a turgid piece urging the Republican Party to embrace big government. Normally this type of column is written by a graybeard establishmentarian like David Broder or E.J. Dionne, but Ruth Marcus has decided to...
