by Brian Garst | Nov 25, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Daily Caller on November 25, 2012. If Mitt Romney thought the gotcha-obsessed political press would let him escape into obscurity following his election defeat, he has rather quickly been disabused of the notion. After Romney suggested in...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2012 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
I periodically mock Republicans for being the stupid party. Yes, some of them probably mean well, but they have this lemming-like instinct to throw themselves on hand grenades. But I noted back in April that the supposedly right-wing Christian Democrat party in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2012 | Blogs, Economics
I like to think I despise politicians more than 99.9 percent of the population. Even in my kindest moments, I see them as occasionally well-intentioned souls who are easily corrupted. Most of the time, they are a plague on society, as this cartoon illustrates. So you...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’ve written many times about politicians and bureaucrats screwing taxpayers with lavish compensation packages, but this story from Philadelphia is jaw dropping. Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco is retiring Friday, but only so she can collect a $478,057 pension check and...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
Mark Twain famously observed that, “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” That’s a generalization, of course, but one that makes a lot of sense. Especially since I’ve written about...
