Are We Jumping Off the Fiscal Cliff…Or Is Obama Pushing Us?

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation

Obama has repeated once again that he will throw the nation off the fiscal cliff if Republicans don’t capitulate to his demands for class-warfare tax hikes. This is a serious topic worthy of weighty analysis, but I don’t really have anything to add to what I’ve...

France’s Fiscal Suicide

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 2, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation

I try to be self aware, so I realize that I have the fiscal version of Tourette’s. Regardless of the question that is asked, I’m tempted to blurt out that the answer is to reduce the burden of government spending. But sometimes that’s exactly the right prescription,...

Another Push for Global Taxation from the United Nations

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...

Carbon Taxes: A Bipartisan Threat to Liberty That Won’t Stay Dead

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...

Spending Cuts and Tax Cuts Should Be an All-of-the-Above Option, Not an Either-Or Choice

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,...