Margaret Thatcher Debunks the Leftist Agenda on Income Equality

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2011 | Blogs, Economics

The statists are making a big issue out of income inequality, hoping to convince ordinary Americans that redistribution is their only hope for a better life. I’ve explained with a pizza analogy that this is horribly misguided because it falsely assumes the economy is...

Will the Last Job Creator to Leave California Please Turn Off the Lights?

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation

I’ve written before about whether California is the Greece of America, in part because of crazy policies such as overpaid bureaucrats and expensive forms of political correctness, And we all know that California has one of the nation’s greediest governments, imposing...

Rich Statists Exposed as Complete Hypocrites

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation

I’ve written before about how some leftists have a masochistic desire to pay higher taxes. I’ve also exposed Warren Buffett’s dishonest math, which is part of his campaign for bigger government. And I’ve even debated rich statists on TV, telling them not to make the...

Ending American Tax Dollars to the OECD Should Be a Minimal Test of GOP Fiscal Responsibility

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation

I wrote last week about how the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based international bureaucracy, has launched a new campaign to promote class-warfare tax policy. I’ve since learned that the OECD’s effort is even more objectionable than I...

On Economic Matters, Is Obama Clueless, Indifferent, or Deliberately Destructive?

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2011 | Blogs, Economics

I’ve been a relentless critic of Obama’s policies of redistributionism, class warfare, and cronyism, so I didn’t feel I had anything new to say after Obama gave what’s being called his “Teddy Roosevelt speech” in Kansas earlier this week. But David Harsanyi has an...