by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
couple of years ago, I shared a chart that powerfully demonstrated why Greece was in fiscal crisis. The chart, which showed the explosive growth of the government bureaucracy, also provided some indication of why reform would be so difficult. Once a majority of a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 11, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending, Keynesian, Taxation
It is reported that Henry Kissinger, commenting on the Iran-Iraq war, said something to the effect that, “Too bad both sides can’t lose.” I imagine lots of people felt the same way when two of the world’s worst murderers, Hitler and Stalin, went to war in 1941. I have...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian, Taxation
I want a smaller burden of government spending, so you can only imagine how frustrating it is for me to observe the fight in Europe. On one side of the debate you have pro-spenders, who call themselves “growth” advocates, but are really just Keynesians. On the other...
by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
I don’t like giving international bureaucrats tax-free salaries. And it really galls me when they use their privileged positions to promote statism. So you can understand why I’m not a big fan of the International Monetary Fund. Whether we’re talking more spending,...
by Dan Mitchell | May 17, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I have to start this post with a big caveat. I’m not a fan of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The international bureaucracy is infamous for using American tax dollars to promote a statist economic agenda. Most recently, it...
