by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
I feel like a pendulum this election season. Something will happen that makes me want to eviscerate Obama’s statist policies and I’ll write a foaming-at-the-mouth post warning that the President is turning America into Greece. But then Romney will do something odious...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
The Chairmen of President Obama’s Fiscal Commission have a new draft proposal that is filled, according to Reuters, with “sharp spending and benefit cuts.” That’s music to my ears, so I quickly flipped to the back of the report in hopes of finding hard numbers showing...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
I have many pet peeves, but one that causes me endless frustration is the Washington “spending cut” scam. This happens when politicians increase spending, but claim that they’re cutting spending because they previously had planned to make government even bigger. The...
