by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I spoke at the United Nations back in May, explaining that more government was the wrong way to help the global economy. But I guess I’m not very persuasive. The bureaucrats have just released a new report entitled, “In Search of New Development Finance.” As you can...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 23, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in Forbes on September 23, 2012. With the economy sputtering toward what can at best be described as a meager recovery, it seems like an obviously poor time to consider raising taxes on any form of energy. That’s particularly true when it comes...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I’m in Slovenia where I just finished indoctrinating educating a bunch of students on the importance of Mitchell’s Golden Rule as a means of restraining the burden of government spending. And I emphasized that the fiscal problem in Europe is the size of government,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
If you live in America and believe in free markets and small government, it’s easy to get depressed. We suffered through eight years of wasteful spending and misguided intervention under Bush, and now we’re enduring four years of additional spending and red tape under...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
I feel like a pendulum this election season. Something will happen that makes me want to eviscerate Obama’s statist policies and I’ll write a foaming-at-the-mouth post warning that the President is turning America into Greece. But then Romney will do something odious...
