by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When I last checked, Henry Payne was winning the bronze medal in the contest to identify the best political cartoonist. You can see why by checking out this cartoon about Washington’s reaction to sequestration, which (gasp!) slightly slows the growth of the federal...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
By the time you read this post, it’s possible that the buffoons in Washington will have announced a deal on the fiscal cliff. Or perhaps we’ll have another month or more of fake drama. Regardless of when the deal is announced, I fear the final result will be some sort...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation
Washington frustrates me. The entire town is based on legalized corruption as an unworthy elite figure out new ways of accumulating unearned wealth by skimming money from the nation’s producers. But one thing that especially irks me is the way people focus on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
Obama has repeated once again that he will throw the nation off the fiscal cliff if Republicans don’t capitulate to his demands for class-warfare tax hikes. This is a serious topic worthy of weighty analysis, but I don’t really have anything to add to what I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
I’ve run across very few good cartoons about Keynesian economics. If my aging memory is correct, I’ve only posted two of them. But at least they’re both very good. We have one involving Obama, sharks, and a lifeboat, and another one involving an overburdened jockey....
