by Geoffrey MacLeay | Apr 26, 2010 | Free Market, Taxation
The New York Times ran an article this week about an increasing number of Americans living and working abroad who are considering taking the drastic step of giving up their American citizenship. Most of these expats would ideally like to maintain their citzenship but...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
Newt Gingrich writes in the Washington Post to defend his assertion that Obama is a socialist. He cites several examples of the President’s big-government agenda, which are excerpted below. These are all examples of bad policy, to be sure, but other than the...
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...
