by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2016 | Blogs
Over the years, Barack Obama has made some statements that indicate a very statist worldview. In my video on class warfare, I noted that Obama said in 2008 that – for reasons of “fairness” – he wanted to raise the capital gains tax even if the government lost revenue....
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Early this year, I shared an amusing but accurate image that showed an important difference between capitalism and socialism. And in 2012, I posted a comparison of Detroit and Hiroshima to illustrate the damage of big government. Well, if you combine those concepts,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2012 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Even vicious, reprehensible, and disgusting tyrants sometimes make wise observations. Back in 2010, for instance, Cuba’s Murderer-in-Chief confessed that communism didn’t work. More recently, the thug expressed unhappiness with the current crop of presidential...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 24, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not serious , of course, but it is rather ironic that Raul Castro is cutting the tax burden on small business at the same time that Obama is pushing for higher tax rates on small business. Reuters reports on the latest in supply-side communism. Cuba unveiled on...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve already commented on Cuba’s surprising announcement to slash the number of government workers. And I’ve complained about the federal workforce expanding in the United States. This is not what one would expect when comparing policy developments in a communist...
