by Dan Mitchell | Dec 2, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
It’s time to puncture the myth that libertarians are congenitally dour and pessimistic. We’re going to look at some fiscal data that must be very depressing for President Obama and other advocates of big government. But that means this information must be very good...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 29, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
I generally don’t feel a special degree of animosity for the internal revenue service. After all, it’s the politicians who have created the 74,000-plus page monstrosity of a tax code. Blaming the IRS for enforcing that system is like blaming the police for the drug...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 5, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
Wow, Barack Obama and the Democrats suffered a thermonuclear butt kicking. This was 1994 and 2010 put together. When the dust settles after recounts and run-offs, it appears that the GOP will have picked up 9 Senate seats. That’s one more than I predicted, and I...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
More than 100 years ago, George Santayana famously warned that, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” At the time, he may have been gazing in a crystal ball and looking at what the Obama Administration is doing today. That’s because the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of Obamanomics. I don’t like the President’s class-warfare mentality on taxes. I don’t like his support for Keynesian spending policy. And I don’t like his costly expansions of government such as Obamacare. Indeed, I even like mocking his reflexive...
