by Dan Mitchell | May 17, 2010 | Blogs, Europe
Very rarely does one find a politician with the moral clarity to provide the blunt and necessary truth about a controversial issue, but that has finally happened. But this is a good news/bad news situation for American taxpayers. The good news is that a politician has...
by Dan Mitchell | May 17, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but I had to paraphrase her famous line after reading this Bill McGurn column in the Wall Street Journal about how Republican poliitcal hacks in the Illinois state legislature voted to kill a voucher bill that would have...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | May 14, 2010 | Big Government, Europe, Taxation
As noted in this blog back in August, the end of Labour rule in the U.K. will not mean the end of big government in that country. The new coalition government has already proposed a large tax hike on capital gains: At present investors only pay CGT of 18pc on gains...
by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2010 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I shed no tears that incumbent Senator Robert Bennett lost his fight to get nominated for a fourth term. His support of the bailout and other big-government policies was a sign that he had become far too comfortable representing established interests and forgot that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 29, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Taxation
I get a lot of email asking me about Greece, especially since I don’t give the issue much attention on the blog. I am paying close attention to what’s happening, especially since Greece is a canary in the coal mine. But I generally try to avoid being...
