by Dan Mitchell | May 22, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market, Taxation, Uncategorized
I recently posted favorable comments about a National Review article that made two important points about fiscal policy and supply-side economics. First, the article reminded “supply siders” that the burden of government spending is very important (and...
by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2010 | Blogs, Education, Uncategorized
There are a handful of issues that expose hypocrites on both sides of the philosophical spectrum. Republicans and conservatives love to talk about free markets, for instance, but you often find them voting for completely sleazy and corrupt forms of corporate welfare...
by Dan Mitchell | May 17, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but I had to paraphrase her famous line after reading this Bill McGurn column in the Wall Street Journal about how Republican poliitcal hacks in the Illinois state legislature voted to kill a voucher bill that would have...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Competition, Europe, Free Market, Uncategorized
Actually, that’s too broad of a brush, but I do despise people of any nationality who think that they are entitled to mooch off the labor and capital of others. I also fear for my country because of such people. Benjamin Franklin is rumored to have said that,...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | May 11, 2010 | Bailouts, Big Government, Free Market
Eli Lehrer writes in the Weekly Standard this week about a bill from Congressman Ron Klein that seems to be companion legislation to Congressman Richard Neal’s Reinsurance Bill. The article correctly points out the anti-market effects of such legislation: Those who...
