by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2021 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Since yesterday’s column showed “Statism in Five Images,” I feel obliged to provide equal time and now do the same thing for libertarianism. We’ll start with an accurate depiction of how libertarians compare to other ideologies (similar to the triangle I...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2021 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Back in 2018, I shared five images that accurately capture leftism, which is the Mussolini-ish notion of “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” (one of the images was subsequently deleted, so you can...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
I was a big fan of federalism (to the extent it still exists) before any of us ever heard of the coronavirus. And, given the federal government’s incompetent response to the pandemic, I’m an even bigger fan of federalism today. Though that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 28, 2021 | Blogs, Education
I have a Bureaucrat Hall of Fame to highlight government employees who have turned sloth and overcompensation into an art form, and I have a Moocher Hall of Fame to illustrate the destructive entitlement mindset that exists when politicians pay...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
I rarely write about media bias, but I sometimes come across stories that cry out for correction because of blatant inaccuracies. The New York Times asserting that government schools are “starved of funding” when taxpayer subsidies actually have...
