by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
I periodically look at issues (social security, education, infrastructure, TSA, etc) to compare the private sector and the public sector. This new video from John Stossel gives us another example. The video reminds us that incentives matter....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 10, 2021 | Blogs, Education
The case for school choice is very straightforward. Monopoly government school systems cost a lot of money and do a bad job. The interests of the education bureaucracy rank higher than the educational needs of kids. Poor...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2021 | Blogs, Society
I have a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) that explains why it’s much better to focus on fighting poverty rather than fretting about inequality. I also think that our friends on the left who fixate on inequality are...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
If we want more prosperity, what’s the ideal size of government? Anarcho-capitalists would say it shouldn’t exist at all, while some hard-core leftists want something like North Korea, where the state is everything. The rest of us want something between...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Given my libertarian sensibilities, I would probably object to foreign aid programs even if they worked. But I don’t have to deal with that potential quandary because we have ample evidence that you don’t get prosperity by giving money to...
