by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Early last year, CF&P released this video, narrated by yours truly, making the case that the United States and other nations should shift from a tax-and-transfer entitlement scheme to a system of personal retirement accounts. Some left wingers criticized the idea,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
The editors at Bloomberg have decided that condemning younger workers to a more dismal future is the best way to deal with the Social Security program’s giant long-run shortfall. They want workers to pay higher taxes to prop up the bankrupt system. And, in exchange...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Yesterday was the 129th anniversary of Charles Ponzi’s birthday. Normal people don’t celebrate the birth of con artists, but a tediously left-wing columnist at the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson, must be a big admirer of Charles Ponzi, because he seems very happy...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
A picture says a thousand words.
