Why on Earth Should We Consider Tax Increases When Politicians and Bureaucrats Allow Multi-Billion Dollar Losses of Taxpayer Money Because of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse?

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 16, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements

Maybe I’m just old fashioned, or maybe I’m a bit stiff-necked, but I will never relent in my opposition to tax increases so long as the crowd in Washington is spending money on things that are not appropriate functions of the federal government. But that’s just one...

Gee, I’m Glad I Pay Taxes to Give Food Stamps to a Millionaire

by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Welfare and Entitlements

Not that we needed any additional evidence that the government wastes money in truly spectacular fashion, but this story from the Detroit Free Press is especially disgusting and outrageous. A man who won $2 million on a Michigan lottery show has told a TV station that...

This Cartoon Is Very Funny, but also Does a Great Job of Teaching Economics

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements

Economists often do a crummy job of teaching people about the impact of fiscal policy on the labor force, largely because we put people to sleep with boring discussions about “labor supply” decisions (my blog post from last year perhaps being an example of this...