by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, VAT
His article doesn’t completely slam the door on a value-added tax, but Robert Samuleson’s piece in the Washington Post does highlight some of the very serious problems with a VAT – including more government spending, burdens on families, additional...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
He’s only been Governor for a couple of months, and we have seen other elected officials start strong and then get captured by the special interested, but it certainly appears that Governor Christie of New Jersey genuinely intends to rescue his stated from...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
Newt Gingrich writes in the Washington Post to defend his assertion that Obama is a socialist. He cites several examples of the President’s big-government agenda, which are excerpted below. These are all examples of bad policy, to be sure, but other than the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth
I have a column in the New York Post explaining that big government is a losing deal for taxpayers in the Empire State. I’m tempted to say they deserve to be over-taxed and over-regulated because they keep electing collectivists like Chuck Schumer, but I grew...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Apr 19, 2010 | Taxation, VAT
Last Thursday, the Senate took a vote on a non-binding “sense of the Senate” resolution concerning a Value Added Tax. The result was an 85-13 victory for the anti-VAT side. The roll call can be found here. The statement of purpose read as follows: Expressing the...
