by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I was very pleased to report the other day that the people of France overwhelmingly favor spending cuts, even when they were asked a biased question that presupposed that Keynesian-style spending increases would “stimulate” the economy. Now I have some polling data...
by Dan Mitchell | May 17, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I have to start this post with a big caveat. I’m not a fan of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The international bureaucracy is infamous for using American tax dollars to promote a statist economic agenda. Most recently, it...
by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
The main goal of fiscal policy should be to shrink the burden of government spending as a share of economic output. Fortunately, it shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve this modest goal. All that’s required is to make sure the private sector grows faster than the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 12, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve written many times about how investors, entrepreneurs, small business owners and other successful people migrate from high-tax states to low-tax states. Well, the same thing happens internationally, as France’s greedy politicians are now learning. It’s a lot...
by Dan Mitchell | May 11, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Keynesian
Political insiders remember Tim Geithner for his role in promoting the bailout culture and crony capitalism in Washington. Comedians remember him for the laughable hypocrisy of urging higher taxes for others while cheating on his own tax return. But I mostly think of...
