by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society
Since I’m an economist specializing in public finance, I get very upset about punitive tax policy and wasteful government spending. But what really gets my blood boiling is reading about the horrific policy of civil asset forfeiture, which literally allows government...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 6, 2020 | Blogs, States
I asked a couple of years ago, “How long can California survive big government?” Based on migration patterns, the answer is “Not much longer.” Simply stated, bad fiscal and regulatory policy have produced a long-run decline for the Golden State. So we shouldn’t be...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
The most-common complaint about bureaucrats is that they’re lazy. Though it’s probably more accurate to say that bureaucracies have very little incentive to care about citizens. After all, the rest of us are captive customers, whether we’re dealing with the federal...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 3, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
One of America’s leading public intellectuals, Walter Williams, has passed away. In 2014, I shared a teaser for Suffer No Fools, a video biography of his life. To commemorate the life of this great man, here’s the full video. I first got to know Walter when I was a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 2, 2020 | Blogs
A couple of days ago, I criticized officials at the United Nations for advocating higher taxes and bigger government. Fortunately, that bureaucracy is so sclerotic and inefficient that its efforts to promote statism are not very effective But it still galls me that...
