by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of Mitt Romney. I hammered him the day before Christmas for being open to a value-added tax, and criticized him in previous posts for his less-than-stellar record on healthcare, his weakness on Social Security reform, his anemic list of proposed...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I’ve commented many times about the misguided big-government policies of both Hoover and FDR, so I can say with considerable admiration that this video packs an amazing amount of solid info into about five minutes. Perhaps the most surprising bit of info in the video...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending
Europe is in the midst of a fiscal crisis caused by too much government spending, yet many of the continent’s politicians want the European Central Bank to purchase the dodgy debt of reckless welfare states such as Spain, Italy, Greece, and Portugal in order to prop...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Government Waste
Last month, I shared a video about bloated bureaucracy from a group called Government Gone Wild. That generated a big response, so here’s another video from the same group, only this one looks at egregious examples of government waste. If you like videos on wasteful...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I’ve criticized the Congressional Budget Office for generating biased and inaccurate numbers. These are the clowns, after all, who say deficit spending stimulates the economy in the short run but they also rely on a model which seemingly predicts 100 percent tax rates...
