by Dan Mitchell | Aug 2, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Tax Competition, Taxation
Now that the debt-limit fight is basically over (the Senate will join the House in approving it later today), we need to immediately prepare for the next stage in the fight to stop big government and restore economic liberty. President Obama and other leftists clearly...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
The on-again, off-again “Gang of Six” has come back on the scene and is offering a “Bipartisan Plan to Reduce Our Nation’s Deficits.” The proposal is quite similar to the one put forth by the President’s Simpson-Bowles Commission, which isn’t too surprising since some...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
President Obama is stubbornly clinging to his ideological agenda of bigger government and class warfare. Wasteful programs magically become “investments” for growth, and higher tax rates get turned into “shared sacrifice.” Interestingly, we already know what...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Obama waved the bloody flag of class warfare in his press conference this past week, though it’s not clear whether he was effective since he went out of his way to attack a provision for corporate jets that was part of his failed stimulus bill. In any event, Senator...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 23, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
I was on Larry Kudlow’s CNBC show recently, where I debated against Robert Reich. I made (what I hope are) good points about the Laffer Curve and the big-government policies of both Bush and Obama. The bad news, as least from a personal perspective, is that the last...
