Early Details Show Obama Will Propose a Bait-and-Switch Budget Plan Containing Higher Taxes and More Spending

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation

Are we about to see a new kinder-and-gentler Obama? Has the tax-and-spend President of the past four years been replaced by a fiscal moderate? That’s certainly the spin we’re getting from the White House about the President’s new budget. Let’s look at this theme,...

Sequestration’s Impact on HUD: Just 358 More Days and Mission Accomplished

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 12, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

As part of my “Question of the Week” series, I had to decide which department of the federal government was most deserving of abolition. With a target-rich environment of waste, fraud, and abuse in Washington, that wasn’t an easy question to answer. But I decided to...

My Heart Breaks and Tears Flow When I Read about Sequestration Being a Big Defeat for Lobbyists

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

I believe in the First Amendment, so I would never support legislation to restrict political speech or curtail the ability of people to petition the government. That being said, I despise the corrupt Washington game of obtaining unearned wealth thanks to the sleazy...

As Humorously Explained by Henry Payne, the World Amazingly Didn’t End When Uncle Sam Got Put on a Sequester Diet

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

When I last checked, Henry Payne was winning the bronze medal in the contest to identify the best political cartoonist. You can see why by checking out this cartoon about Washington’s reaction to sequestration, which (gasp!) slightly slows the growth of the federal...

Challenge for Keynesian Anti-Sequester Hysterics: Why Did America’s Economy Boom When Reagan and Clinton Reduced the Burden of Spending?

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 6, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian

Triggered by an appearance on Canadian TV, I asked yesterday why we should believe anti-sequester Keynesians. They want us to think that a very modest reduction in the growth of government spending will hurt the economy, yet Canada enjoyed rapid growth in the...