by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Laffer Curve, Taxation
President Obama and other statists in Washington want a big class-warfare tax hike. They claim the additional revenue is necessary to reduce red ink. But their ideological crusade is based on some blatant distortions. They tell us that tax increases are necessary, but...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 15, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Obama has staked out a very dogmatic and inflexible position on class-warfare tax hikes and he obviously wants all of us to think only the “rich” will be impacted. I think it’s foolish to penalize investors, entrepreneurs, small business owners and other upper-income...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 10, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m in Jersey, where I gave a speech last night. But not New Jersey, the state where you shouldn’t die. That’s the state that many people have been fleeing because they don’t like paying confiscatory taxes to finance bureaucrats who make as much as $320,000 per year....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
Augmented by some amusing cartoons, I’ve already warned that the hysteria about the fiscal cliff is basically a ploy by the politicians to extract more revenue to finance bigger government. Elaborating on this concern, I wrote a column for today’s New York Daily News....
by CF&P | Oct 30, 2012 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 30, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P “Economics 101” Video Blasts Obama’s Class Warfare Tax Policy (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 30,...