Lucky French Taxpayers Get an Obama-Style Flat Tax

by Dan Mitchell | May 20, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs

I joked back in 2010 that Barack Obama had a very simple flat tax proposal. But as you can see, sometimes simple isn’t the same as good. Well, satire too often becomes reality in a world of greedy and corrupt politicians who think class-warfare is an acceptable guide...

Grim News from Greece about Grasping Government

by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe

I’m in Europe as part of a six-nation speaking tour, participating in the Free Market Road Show. My first speech was yesterday in Greece, which is infamous for a government that is insanely wasteful, even to the point of subsidizing pedophiles and requiring stool...

If the Government Doesn’t Double Tax Your Retirement Savings, Are You Benefitting from an Entitlement?

by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized

I’ve cited some remarkable examples of Orwellian language abuse. The World Bank published a study of national tax systems and countries with higher tax burdens were rewarded with a grade of “high effort.” A German bureaucrat accused a Czech politician of  “obstructing...

Being in Favor of Markets Is Not the Same of Being in Favor of Business

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2013 | Bailouts, Blogs, Free Market

Folks, the pendulum is swinging in the right direction. In recent weeks, I’ve shared a bunch of examples to support my hypothesis that libertarians, small-government conservatives, and classical liberals are finally making some progress. This trend actually started...

Belgium Must Be Hopeless if Politicians from Brussels Are Criticizing Germany for Being too Capitalistic

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Minimum Wage

I’m not a big fan of the German government. Angela Merkel has a disturbing desire to impose fiscal and political union on the European continent. And even the supposedly free market Free Democratic Party seems perfectly comfortable with a gradual descent into statism....