by Dan Mitchell | Jul 12, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Free Market, Health Care
Eline van den Broek probably is not happy today since she was in South Africa watching her team lose a high-scoring battle with Spain, but she should be very proud of the new video she narrated that urges the repeal of Obamacare – and also points out some of the other...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation
In a debate with one of the hopeless ideologues from the Center for American Progress, I criticize the corrupt deals between big government and big business, I warn about the big tax increases scheduled to take effect next year, I explain that Republicans did Obama a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 7, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Here’s a depressing chart prepared by Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center. But we don’t need a thousand words to say that the long-run prognosis for America will be grim if government continues to expand faster than the productive sector of the economy. This is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
The G-20 gab-fest is in Canada this weekend, but Canadian taxpayers are definitely not winners. In a display of waste that might even embarrass a French politician, the Canadian government somehow is going to squander $1 billion hosting the event. I can’t even...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 25, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Barack Obama and Angela Merkel are the two main characters in what is being portrayed as a fight between American “stimulus” and European “austerity” at the G-20 summit meeting in Canada. My immediate instinct is to cheer for the Europeans. After all, “austerity”...
