by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Taxation
Tax-news.com reports that the French and Italian governments want Europe to impose a tax on imports from nations that don’t adopt misguided climate-change/global-warming rules. This is awful policy, but the good news is that such a policy presumably won’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Taxation
A former White House speechwriter, Mark Thiessen, has jumped to the defense of his former boss, writing for the Washington Post that George W. Bush “established a conservative record without parallel.” Even by the loose standards of Washington, that is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
Tom Palmer of the Altas Network has a very concise – yet quite devastating – video exposing the Keynesian fallacy that the destruction of wealth by calamaties such as earthquakes or terrorism is good for economic growth. Tom cites the work of Bastiat, who...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market
USA Today reports on a study showing that payments to donors would significantly increase the supply of kidneys available for transplant. Such a system potentially could save thousands of lives per year, so it is perplexing that statists are so viscerally opposed. The...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Apr 2, 2010 | Europe, Free Market, Tax Competition
Nicholas Sarkozy spoke at Columbia University in New York on Monday and, as he has done before, demonstrated that everyone who calls themselves a conservative is not a free marketer. The French President pressed for an expansion of global financial bureaucracies and...
