by Dan Mitchell | Jul 6, 2022 | Blogs, Constitution
John Stossel has added to his collection of great videos. His latest releases asks whether the Constitution should be amended. If you watch carefully, you’ll see that I made an appearance toward the end. My clip lasts only about five seconds, but I used that short...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
In this interview from last March, I groused that the Supreme Court – largely thanks to statist Justices appointed by one of America’s worst presidents – basically decided, starting in the 1930s, that it would no longer be bound by the Constitution’s provisions that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Constitution, Health Care
’m not a lawyer, or an expert on the Constitution, though I sometimes play one on TV. But I can read, and I’ll agree with my friends on the left that the federal government has a broad power to tax. I wish the 16th Amendment had never been ratified, but its language...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Constitution, Health Care
I think Obamacare is bad policy because it exacerbates the main problem with the current healthcare system, which is third-party payer. And as a public finance economist, I’m obviously not happy about the new taxes and additional spending in Obamacare. But those...
