by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs
Although this line is attributed to many people, Wikiquote says that Gideon Tucker was the first to warn us that “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” This cartoon about Keynesian economics sort of makes the same point,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
As part of his campaign to expand the size and scope of the federal government (and to justify his advocacy of class-warfare taxation), President Obama has been asserting that all of us benefit from government spending. It’s why he now echoes Elizabeth Warren’s claim...
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...
