Dan Mitchell Has All You Need to Know About the Debt Commission

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 11th at 01:16 PM  | 

I realize for the front page this should probably be a longer post, but this must be your must read of the day. Dan Mitchell from the CATO Institute has everything you need to know about the Debt Commission report. If you read through their report, it sounds like there are lots of spending cuts. But they never explain that these supposed cuts are really | Read More »

The Flat Tax

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 29th at 12:00 PM  | 

Dan Mitchell from CATO sent me the video below explaining how a flat tax works: I’m a big fan of the flat tax idea. It would not take a constitutional amendment like the fair tax, which I don’t think will ever happen. It has also been successfully deployed in a number of rapidly growing countries. No offense intended to the Fair Tax crowd, but I | Read More »

The VAT: Beware

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 15th at 01:00 AM  | 

CATO has up a new video explaining the VAT. We probably all need to get educated on this.

Empirical Evidence Against Big Government

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 15th at 09:04 AM  |