by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Some ideas are so horrible that I’m almost at a loss for words. The United Nations is a grotesquely wasteful and corrupt international bureaucracy with a long track record of failure and incompetence. Yet some people think this collection of looters, moochers, and...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
There certainly are logical reasons to think that Obama’s policies are dampening economic growth. Investors and entrepreneurs have little reason to produce and take risks, after all, when they know the burden of government is going to climb. Especially when you add...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 16, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
Congress wants to reduce tax evasion, but politicians are unwilling to address the underlying problem of low tax rates, so they continuously give the IRS more power and make it more difficult for law-abiding people to engage in commerce. A good example is the FATCA...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
I cross swords with my long-time nemesis, Christian Weller. I suspect the most interesting part of the debate, however, is when I jump on one of the hosts for asserting that the Bush years were some sort of laissez-faire episode. How often do you get to ask for drugs...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Deroy Murdock explains in National Review how politicians in Washington have imposed legislation – which most Americans still don’t know about – to ban traditional light bulbs. As American as the grand slam, the Mustang convertible, and the constitutional republic,...
