Three Simple Rules to Keep Republicans from Being Seduced by Dishonest and Orwellian Word Games from the Left on Tax Reform and Tax Increases

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation

Those who had the misfortune of seeing President Obama go after “tax breaks for corporate jets” as part of his press conference may be wondering why he was attacking a provision that was in his so-called stimulus and enacted by a Democratic-controlled Congress in...

The IMF: An Equal-Opportunity Purveyor of Bad Advice

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation

As a general rule, the bureaucrats at the International Monetary Fund are not awful people or fire-breathing leftists. But they are voices for the establishment. And, at the upper levels, IMF staff seem overly solicitous of the views of the big nations, which means...

Obama’s Budget Plan: Class-Warfare Tax Policy and Bureaucrat-Controlled Health Care

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation

President Obama didn’t offer a budget plan yesterday. The White House hasn’t released anything beyond a set of talking points. But that’s not terribly surprising since his speech was really the opening salvo of his 2012 reelection fight. And it’s clear that a central...

Obama’s Tax Increase Trigger: Punishing Taxpayers with Automatic Tax Hikes When Politicians Overspend

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation

Responding to widespread criticism of his AWOL status on the budget fight, President Obama today unveiled a fiscal plan. It already is being criticized for its class warfare approach to tax policy, but the most disturbing feature may be a provision that punishes the...

Norquist Is Right and Coburn Is Wrong: Tax Increases Will Lead to More Spending, Not Lower Deficits

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation

There’s a significant debate now taking place in Washington – largely behind closed doors, but sometimes covered by the media – on whether fiscal conservatives should maintain a rigid no-tax-increase position. One side of the debate features Grover Norquist of...