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By Richard W. Rahn - - Monday, June 13, 2016ANALYSIS/OPINION:At the end of this past week, The Washington Post ran a long story on the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CFP), an organization that I have long supported. It appeared that the original goal was to do a hit piece on CFP because it had been a leader in the fight for global tax competition and smaller government.The irony was that the authors of the story quoted a number of people from around the world, including people from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), who support bigger government and higher taxes, to the effect that those at the CFP had been highly successful in blocking a number of their attempts to reduce tax competition and impose higher taxes. It seemed to stun The Washington Post’s writers that only a couple of people with a tiny budget were able to stop major governments from even doing more of a tax-and-regulatory grab — mainly because the CFP only needed to effectively expose the facts and the truth, which they did.......How big should government be? Do you think you should be paying additional taxes to support more government programs? If you listen to National Public Radio and many of the media and political advocates for larger government, the common theme is that this or that government program is “under-resourced.” No matter how much government spends, it is never enough.The inconvenient truth is that there is an optimum size of government...http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/13/economic-growth-suffers-from-overspending-not-unde/
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Topic: Bursting the false narrative Economic growth suffers from overspending, not undertaxation (Read 301 times)
