Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Francis Cianfrocca are joined by Daniel Mitchell, to discuss Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, the pitfalls of instituting a national sales tax, and the reality that 9-9-9 will probably end up more like 12-12-12. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d | Read More »
Dan Mitchell writes this morning about Andrew Sullivan’s reality-based economic analysis: I was rather amused last night when I read one of his posts, in which he was discussing whether government spending helps or hurts economic performance. He took the view that a bigger public sector stimulated growth, and criticized those who wanted to reduce the burden of government spending, snarkily observing that, “The notion | Read More »
Dan Mitchell’s latest video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity walks through the choices facing political leaders on reforming the Medicare system. This is a timely and well-done walk-through on the real choices we face for this system. “Would you be a cost-effective shopper if you were told I’d pay 80% of the cost the next time you buy a new car?” Watch and | Read More »
What is President Barack Obama’s “debt failsafe” trigger? It is a means for liberals in Washington to increase taxes on you in the name of deficit reduction and avoids specific consent of the governed for these tax increases. If a mechanism to automatically increase taxes is raised by the “Gang of Six,” a bipartisan group working to reduce the deficit, or the President’s bipartisan bicameral negotiating team on reducing | Read More »
Dan Mitchell’s latest video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity cites fascinating numbers from Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand on spending restraint. If you missed it, an earlier video in this series detailed how Reagan and Clinton successfully limited the growth of spending. As leadership in Washington considers ways to cut back, it’s worth looking at examples which demonstrate the kind of steps | Read More »
The latest video from Dan Mitchell from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity talks about government spending as a share of GDP during the Reagan and Clinton years. Watch and learn! It’s striking to see the difference in the sheer level of numbers we’re talking about now under President Obama — the levels we’re looking at for the 1980s and 1990s are simply unthinkable in | Read More »
Conservatives disagree as to whether the tax deal cut between the White House and Capitol Hill’s leaders is a good deal for America. Some conservatives argue that the new congress could have forced a long term deal on extending tax relief permanently for all Americans. Some conservatives are happy to get some tax relief before tax season starts on January 1st and believe that it is the best we could | Read More »
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 »
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