by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2015 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve sometimes asserted, only half-jokingly, that statists believe all of our income belongs to the government and that we should be grateful if we’re allowed to keep any slice of what we earn. This is, at least in part, the mentality behind the “tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
When writing about the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international bureaucracy based in Paris, my life would be simpler if I created some sort of automatic fill-in-the-blanks system. Something like this. The OECD, subsidized by $____...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 10, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
What are the wisest words ever uttered by an American president? I’m not going to pretend to know the answer, but there are some options that are high on my list. I like what Ronald Reagan said about the government’s view of the economy, a quote that I shared just a...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
Summarizing the federal government is not easy. There’s nearly $4 trillion of spending to disentangle. There’s a 75,000-page tax code to decipher. And there’s a regulatory morass that defies understanding. So when people ask me questions about the cost of the federal...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
I periodically share this poster, in part because it’s funny, but mostly because it’s true. After all, can you think of many “success stories” involving government? When I pose this question to my statist friends, I usually get a blank stare in response. Though some...
