by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve remarked before about how I get especially upset when well-to-do people figure out ways of ripping off taxpayers. Redistribution from rich to poor is not a good idea, but it is far more offensive when the coercive power of government is used to transfer money...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 19, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m not a foreign policy expert, so perhaps I’m missing something, but a quick glance at the Constitution reveals that Congress has the power to declare war, as specified in Article I, Section VIII. Nobody else has that power, not even the President. Notwithstanding...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2011 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Regulations, Taxation, VAT
The mid-term elections were a rejection of President Obama’s big-government agenda, but those results don’t necessarily mean better policy. We should not forget, after all, that Democrats rammed through Obamacare even after losing the special election to replace Ted...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Some ideas are so horrible that I’m almost at a loss for words. The United Nations is a grotesquely wasteful and corrupt international bureaucracy with a long track record of failure and incompetence. Yet some people think this collection of looters, moochers, and...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 6, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The old saying that “two wrongs don’t make a right” is especially true in the field of public policy. A good example is the crazy new proposal from the United Nations to collect billions of dollars by imposing global taxes on financial transactions and energy. That’s...
