by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
For the most part, international summits like the recently concluded G-20 meeting in Mexico are pointless – but expensive – publicity stunts for incumbent politicians. They pose for photo-ops, have boring meeting, and draft up empty communiques, always at some posh...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Regulations
Back in 2010, I cited the superb work of Christina Hoff Summers as she explained that we should let markets determine wages rather than giving that power to a bunch of bean-counting bureaucrats. She wrote that article because leftists at the time were pushing a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2012 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
Back in 2009, I wrote about various schemes to impose taxes on unhealthy food. At the time, I was primarily concerned about the risks of giving politicians a new source of revenue that would be used to increase the burden of government spending. The folks at Reason TV...
by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
One of my first blog posts, back in 2009, featured Veronique de Rugy in a video, warning that America should not adopt the statist policies that caused so much damage in her home country of France. Sadly (but predictably), the politicians in Washington ignored...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Republicans are telling voters that they’ve learned the hard lessons from the 2006 and 2008 elections and that they are back on the side of taxpayers. I’m not convinced, which is why I’ve outlined some key tests that will demonstrate whether the GOP genuinely supports...
