Tag Archives: United Kingdom
The Never-Ending Battle Between the U.S. and U.K. for Stupidest Government Policy
In June of last year, I posted several examples of idiotic government policy from both the United States and United Kingdom and asked which nation had the dumbest bureaucrats and… Read more
Another Horror Story about Government-Run Healthcare that Can’t Possibly Be True According to Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman has told us that awful stories about government-run healthcare in Britain “are false.” I guess this means that the media must be dominated by conservative liars, since we… Read more
More Great Moments in Government-Run Healthcare
Even though Paul Krugman has told us that horror stories about government-run healthcare in Britain “are false,” we keep getting reports about substandard care and needless deaths (see here, here,… Read more
European Economic Crisis Highlights an Increasingly Important Reason to Oppose Gun Control
bout a year ago, I spoke at a conference in Europe that attracted a lot of very rich people from all over the continent, as well as a lot of… Read more
Tim “Turbotax” Geithner Has a British Soulmate
The Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, is infamous for conveniently forgetting to pay tax on $80,000 of income and then getting kid-glove treatment from the IRS when his crime… Read more
The Deadly Impact of Government-Run Healthcare in the U.K., but Don’t Expect a Krugman Retraction or Apology
The United Kingdom has one of the most statist healthcare systems in the world. Indeed, my Cato colleague Mike Tanner produced an excellent study showing that the U.K. system is … Read more
From the U.K., another Great Moment in Government-Run Healthcare
I’ve written several times about the sometimes-deadly shortcomings of government-run healthcare in the United Kingdom (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), so I like to think… Read more
A Despicable Human Being Created by the British Welfare State?
Every so often, I can’t resist condemning someone for grossly immoral behavior. I beat up on Robert Murphy for stealing the value of someone else’s property. I attacked Olga Stefou… Read more
English Riots, Moral Relativism, Gun Control, and the Welfare State
I wrote earlier this year about the connection between a morally corrupt welfare state and the riots in the United Kingdom. But what’s happening now is not just some left-wing… Read more
Tax Warning: Will Barack Obama Do to America What Leftists Already Have Done to Illinois…and England…and…?
Now that the debt-limit fight is basically over (the Senate will join the House in approving it later today), we need to immediately prepare for the next stage in the… Read more
