by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2010 | Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
I don’t like wasteful government spending, but it really adds insult to injury when politicians use my tax dollars for political propaganda. A nauseating example of this practice are the highway signs highlighting how projects are funded by the so-called stimulus. In...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
I seem to have touched a raw nerve with my post earlier today comparing Reagan and Obama on how well the economy performed coming out of recession. Both Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman have denounced my analysis (actually, they denounced me approving of Richard Rahn’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 4, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama entered office during periods of economic misery. But they adopted dramatically different solutions. Reagan reduced the burden of government and Obama increased the burden of government. So which approach worked best? In his...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 22, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Government Spending
In a column in today’s New York Post, I mock White House unemployment calculations and then explain why companies are not anxious to hire more workers. The White House last year released a supposedly scientific analysis that claimed to show that adopting the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 15, 2010 | Blogs, Economics
The White House is claiming that the so-called stimulus created between 2.5 million and 3.6 million jobs even though total employment has dropped by more than 2.3 million since Obama took office. The Administration justifies this legerdemain by asserting that the...
