by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2010 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Welfare and Entitlements
It’s been amusing, in an I-told-you-so fashion, to follow the fiscal crises in Greece, Spain, and other European welfare states. And I feel like a voyeuristic ghoul as I observe the incredibly misguided bailout policies being adopted by the political elites (who are...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 23, 2010 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Jeff Jacoby righteously – and rightfully – condemns the moral perversion that allows people to overlook the barbaric cruelty and oppression of communism. If Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who died on Friday at 87, had been an unrepentant Nazi for the last four...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 30, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Uncategorized
More on Obama and Socialism. I got some interesting feedback about my pseudo-defense of Obama against the accusation that he is a socialist. It was a faux defense because my goal was simply to point out that Obama is guilty of a different form of statism. For those...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Greece’s fiscal disarray is a visible manifestation of Europe’s future, but the most appropriate symbol of what’s wrong with the continent comes from Brussels, where there are three “presidents” fighting over the right to represent Europe...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
Washington is buzzing with news that the Congressional Budget Office has a new cost estimate for the President’s proposal to further expand the federal government’s control over the healthcare system. The White House is doubtlessly pleased because the...
