by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Yesterday’s column about “the tax nightmare before Christmas” was based on my fear that politicians will try to impose a value-added tax at some point in the not-too-distant future. Today’s column is about the spending nightmare that is already happening. The bottom...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 2, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
What’s worse, Democrats who deliberately seek to make government bigger because of their ideological belief in statism, or Republicans who sort of realize that big government is bad yet make government bigger because of incompetence? I’m not sure, though this is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Notwithstanding the landslide rejection of Obama and his policies in the mid-term election, I don’t think this will produce big changes in policy over the next two years. Simply stated, the GOP does not have the votes to override presidential vetoes, so there’s no...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
There’s a saying in the sports world about how last-minute comebacks are examples of “snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.” I don’t like that phrase because it reminds me of the painful way my beloved Georgia Bulldogs were defeated a couple of weeks ago by...
by Brian Garst | Dec 5, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Government Spending
The sequester was a victory for advocates of small government and a major defeat for the Obama administration. It was also a defeat for the special interest bottom feeders who leech off the American taxpayer. But they’re not going down quietly: The defense...
