by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
A former colleague from my days at the Heritage Foundation, Robert Rector, has a very disturbing article at National Review Online. Robert explains that the Obama Administration is putting together a new – and rigged – definition of poverty that has...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
President Obama and many other politicians in Washington are big fans of pay-as-you-go budgeting, which means they want any new spending or tax relief offset (or “paid for”) with tax increases or spending cuts from other parts of the budget. Or at least that’s what...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Politicians like to play a class-warfare game of demonizing rich people. Walter Williams explains, though, that rich people can only do bad things to us if they are conspiring with politicians. The moral of the story, of course, is that government is a threat to our...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
A former reporter for the New York Times, Fox Butterfield, became a bit of a laughingstock in the 1990s for publishing a series of articles addressing the supposed quandary of how crime rates could be falling during periods when prison populations were expanding. A...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth
There doesn’t seem to be much union in the European Union. Greek politicians are wetting their pants that Germany isn’t bending over fast enough to provide bailout money, so they pulled out the Nazi card. I’m sure the Germans raped Greece during...
