by Dan Mitchell | Sep 12, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Time to update our series on “great moments in foreign government.” We’ll start with Jersey. I wrote a few years ago about the (relatively) good tax laws in that British dependent territory off the coast of France. But there are two ways those laws...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
The welfare state and the so-called war on poverty has been very bad news for taxpayers. But it’s also very bad news for poor people, in part because various redistribution programs can lure them out of the productive economy and...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
Thomas Sowell is a great economist, but his expertise extends to other fields of study. Everything from history to education. But he’s also famous for being a great communicator, with dozens of well-known quotes. I use one of them on my rotating banner because it...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
The great Margaret Thatcher famously observed that the problem with socialism is that governments eventually “run out of other people’s money.” But they can do a lot of damage before they reach that point. We know from U.S. experience that Republicans...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
In my fantasy country of Libertaria, there is no Department of Labor, no regulation of employment contracts between consenting adults, and no favoritism for either labor or management. In the real world, the relevant question is...
