spending our way towards bankruptcy
One of the myths about the United States government since Reagan was elected in 1980 is that government became smaller. Reagan was able to reduce the tax burden to encourage […]
Tag Archives: Greg Mankiw
good news for unions, bad news for everyone else
President Obama’s war on the American taxpayer continued by repealing Executive Order 13202. Unions aren’t just content with bankrupting the big American car companies. Greg Mankiw has more. This is […]
Not-So-Charitable Giving
On a couple of occasions I’ve written about charitable giving, especially concerning liberals and conservatives. Economist Greg Mankiw mentioned this phenomenon after seeing the Wall Street Journal’s article about Senator […]
Economic Ignorance
There’s perhaps no greater threat to the state than ignorance about economics. This is especially true when politicians pander to this ignorance for votes (see: Edwards, Huckabee). One of the […]
The Myth of the Rational Voter
I’ve been reading Bryan Caplan’s book the Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies for about three months. The book was recommended by Harvard economist Greg Mankiw. […]
Raise the Gas Taxes
Most economists are not huge fans of raising income taxes. There are plenty of reasons; the biggest being is that it hurts economic growth. Tax policy has always been one […]
U.S. Debt: A Historical and International Perspective
For those that are interested in economics here is an excellent graph that shows how indebted the U.S. government is by historical standards. Harvard economists Greg Mankiw has a small […]
The Economics of Things
Democrats have been beating the “squandered the surplus” horse for about four year now. When pressed for a reason the surplus vanished in the late nineties the deafening silence tells […]
