by Dan Mitchell | Sep 15, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
Sometimes during speeches, when explaining why politicians shouldn’t double tax income that is saved and invested, I ask the audience whether it would make sense to harvest apples by cutting the branches off of trees filled with ripe fruit. In every audience (at least...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
The Census Bureau has just released the 2010 poverty numbers, and the new data is terrible. There are now a record number of poor people in America, and the poverty rate has jumped to 15.1 percent. But I don’t really blame President Obama for these grim numbers. Yes,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2011 | Blogs, Economics
I took part in a thirty-minute online Skype debate for PBS on income inequality, and they boiled it down to the 4:44 youtube video embedded below. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that I said economic growth was the key. I don’t want to re-slice the pie. I...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 8, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m getting sick of the debt downgrade issue, so let’s shift to another topic. The title to this post may seem like a joke, but Europe’s bizarre courts have decided to trample the property rights of landlords by ruling that tenants have a “right” to satellite TV and...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 3, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
As the national debate shifts away from the immediate issues surrounding the debt ceiling, members of Congress should focus now on the fundamental purpose of government in a free society. Current excesses in federal spending have resulted largely due to the continued...
