by Dan Mitchell | Jul 25, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
It’s aggravating and maddening to send tax dollars to Washington and watch them get wasted on pork-barrel projects and inefficient programs. Imagine how much worse it would be, though, to send tax dollars to an international bureaucracy and be utterly helpless to stop...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 24, 2010 | Bailouts, Blogs
The Wall Street Journal correctly pulls aside the veil and exposes the dubious gimmick that European politicians used to declare that banks are reasonably health. To put it bluntly, they assumed no government would ever default, which really means that the stress test...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Regulations
Forget the Magna Carta and the Constitution. Finland is now on the cutting edge of protecting, promoting, and guaranteeing fundamental rights. As the BBC story excerpted below reports, Finland has announced that broadband access is now a legal right! Yes, you’re...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 25, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Barack Obama and Angela Merkel are the two main characters in what is being portrayed as a fight between American “stimulus” and European “austerity” at the G-20 summit meeting in Canada. My immediate instinct is to cheer for the Europeans. After all, “austerity”...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2010 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Welfare and Entitlements
It’s been amusing, in an I-told-you-so fashion, to follow the fiscal crises in Greece, Spain, and other European welfare states. And I feel like a voyeuristic ghoul as I observe the incredibly misguided bailout policies being adopted by the political elites (who are...
