by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2015 | Blogs, Energy, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy with the self-proclaimed mission to “promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.” But if there was a...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation, VAT
Even though I fret about a growing burden of government and have little faith in the ability (or desire) of politicians to make wise decisions, I somehow convince myself that good things will happen. Here’s some of what I wrote two years ago, when asked whether I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 21, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I don’t know which group is more despicable, Greek politicians or the voters who elected them. In both cases, they think they’re entitled to other people’s money. But since the “other people” in this case happen to live in nations such as Germany and Finland, and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 19, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Earlier this year, President Obama proposed a budget that would impose new taxes and add a couple of trillion dollars to the burden of government spending over the next 10 years. The Republican Chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees have now weighed in....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I feel a bit schizophrenic when people ask me my opinion of Republicans on Capitol Hill. When I’m in a good mood (or being naively optimistic, some might argue), I applaud them for blocking Obama’s spending agenda. The fights over sequestration, debt limits, and...
