by Brian Garst | May 2, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Government Waste
A coalition of 30 free market and taxpayer advocacy organizations is calling for the end of the export-import bank. CF&P joined the Americans for Prosperity-led coalition in signing a letter that explains how the Export-Import Bank distorts markets and harms...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
No matter how much I pontificate about Washington corruption, there’s no way I can get across the true extent of the DC establishment’s self-serving behavior. Washington is rich because government is big and the beneficiaries of this system are enjoying their status...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The Bible says that “the wages of sin is death,” but the same can’t be said of Washington, DC. The bureaucrats, lobbyists, politicians, contractors, insiders, cronyists, and influence peddlers have rigged the system so that they get rich by diverting money from people...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
Imagine you’re a statist and you want to raise your kids to have the same spiteful and envious mindset. What’s the best approach? Well, sending your children to a government schoolis an obvious first step. But kids sometimes rebel against big-government orthodoxy, so...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
A bunch of well-connected rich people and government officials are descending upon Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. This upsets many people, and perhaps with some justification. After all, bad things often happen when big business and...