by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Every so often, you read something so ridiculously stupid and absurd that you assume that you’re being pranked. So you look to the date of the article to see if it says April 1. Or you look at the Internet address to see if it’s a parody of a real website. So when I...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Even though I’ve already made clear that I am less-than-overwhelmed by the thought of Mitt Romney in the White House, I worry that people will become to think I’m a GOP toady. That’s because I’ve been spending a lot of time providing favorable analysis and commentary...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2012 | Bailouts, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I’ve been against the auto bailout from the very beginning because it was a corrupt payoff to lazy corporate fat-cats and an ossified union. And when folks on the left say the bailout is a success, I explain that any industry can be propped up with a sufficiently...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
The burden of federal spending in the United States was down to 18.2 percent of gross domestic product when Bill Clinton left office. But this progress didn’t last long. Thanks to George Bush’s reckless spending policies, the federal budget grew about twice as fast as...
by CF&P | Aug 13, 2012 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Monday, August 13, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P “Economics 101” Video Documents Wasteful Legacy of Obamanomics (Washington, D.C., Monday, August 13, 2012) The latest...
