by CF&P | Mar 29, 2010 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Monday, March 29, 2010 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P Video Says Replace The IRS with a Flat Tax (Washington, D.C., Monday, March 29, 2010) A new video released today by the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
When Dorothy and her friends finally reach Oz, they present themselves to the almighty Wizard, only to eventually discover that he is just an illusion maintained by a charlatan hiding behind a curtain. This seems eerily akin to the state of Keynesian economics. It...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth
As usual, Sowell is right on the mark. By expanding the size and burden of government, Obama is making it more difficult for the economy to prosper: President Obama keeps telling us that he is “creating jobs.” But more and more Americans have no jobs. The...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 8, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth
Pulling no punches, Mark Steyn ponders the entitlement-driven collapse of Greece and asks why politicians in America are repeating the same mistakes: Chapter One (the introduction of unsustainable entitlements) leads eventually to Chapter Twenty (total societal...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
A former reporter for the New York Times, Fox Butterfield, became a bit of a laughingstock in the 1990s for publishing a series of articles addressing the supposed quandary of how crime rates could be falling during periods when prison populations were expanding. A...