by Dan Mitchell | Aug 2, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Tax Competition, Taxation
Now that the debt-limit fight is basically over (the Senate will join the House in approving it later today), we need to immediately prepare for the next stage in the fight to stop big government and restore economic liberty. President Obama and other leftists clearly...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
President Obama is stubbornly clinging to his ideological agenda of bigger government and class warfare. Wasteful programs magically become “investments” for growth, and higher tax rates get turned into “shared sacrifice.” Interestingly, we already know what...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
The big-government advocates at the Center for American Progress recently released a series of charts designed to prove America is a low-tax nation. I wish this was the case. The United States does have a lower overall tax burden than Europe, which is shown in one of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 23, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
I was on Larry Kudlow’s CNBC show recently, where I debated against Robert Reich. I made (what I hope are) good points about the Laffer Curve and the big-government policies of both Bush and Obama. The bad news, as least from a personal perspective, is that the last...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Laffer Curve
My good friend Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University did a very illuminating interview with Bloomberg about the serial inaccuracy of government fiscal forecasts. Veronique uses health care as an example, giving particular attention to the...
