by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2015 | Blogs, Energy, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy with the self-proclaimed mission to “promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.” But if there was a...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation, VAT
Even though I fret about a growing burden of government and have little faith in the ability (or desire) of politicians to make wise decisions, I somehow convince myself that good things will happen. Here’s some of what I wrote two years ago, when asked whether I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Constitution, Taxation
I’m not reflexively opposed to executive orders and other unilateral actions by the White House. A president and his appointees, after all, have a lot of regulatory authority. This is because, for better or worse, many of the laws approved in Washington basically...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Back in 2013, I actually wrote something vaguely nice about HBO’s Bill Maher. Or at least I expressed approval for a point he made about the limits of class-warfare taxation. It’s now time to compensate for that action. Check out this interview. It’s about Obama’s new...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
The President today released his budget for fiscal year 2016, a document that also shows what will happen to taxes, spending, and red ink over the next 10 years if the White House’s budget is adopted. Here are the four things that deserve critical attention. 1. Obama...
