by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
By European standards, Germany is in pretty good shape. There’s a very large welfare state and the tax burden is quite onerous, both of which hinder growth, but Germany has been more responsible than the United States in recent years. And while this may be damning...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
In a perverse way (pun intended), I admire German politicians for their creativity. They will figure out ways to tax just about anything. Their latest scheme is a plan that requires streetwalkers to put money in parking meters in exchange for a slip of paper that...
by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2011 | Bailouts, Blogs, Europe
Yesterday, I took aim at a truly pathetic human being who lives as an “adult baby.” But what got me upset was not his lifestyle, but rather the fact that he was mooching off the taxpayers thanks to the dumb bureaucrats at the Social Security Administration, who...
by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2011 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs
We have two completely unrelated topics from Germany and France, but both fit in the broader theme of Europe’s gradual, self-inflicted suicide. Let’s start with the Germans. I’m not a big fan of the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel. She is supposedly a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2010 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Ireland is in deep fiscal trouble and the Germans and the French apparently want the politicians in Dublin to increase the nation’s 12.5 percent corporate tax rate as the price for being bailed out. This is almost certainly the cause of considerable smugness and joy...
