by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Life is difficult when you’re a cranky libertarian. President Obama’s latest stimulus scam was just rejected by the Senate, so I went online to read about this rare bit of good news. But my cheerful mood was undermined by a reprehensible bit of bias by the folks at...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
The folks at U.S. News & World Report have posted an online debate on the never-ending topic: “Does Stimulus Spending Work?“ You know my thoughts on the topic, including my thumbs-down to Obama’s latest stimulus scheme, so it won’t surprise you to know that I...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
As part of his latest “stimulus” scam, President Obama argues that the federal government should spend more money on infrastructure. Yet there is widespread evidence that politicians use such projects to squander money – often in exchange for contributions from...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 17, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Thomas Sowell just completed a three-part “Back to the Future” series, looking at a couple of fiscal policy issues. His unifying theme is how the political class fails (perhaps deliberately) to learn from mistakes. In Part I, he decimates President Obama’s new...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I recently posted four charts eviscerating Obama’s record on jobs. My Cato colleague, Caleb Brown, has a good complement to those charts. He’s put together a short video looking at how government spending and regulation undermine job creation. Caleb says he will be...
