by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Back in 2017, I compared the welfare state vision of “positive rights” with the classical liberal vision of “negative rights.” To elaborate, here’s a video from Learn Liberty that compares these visions. For what it’s worth, I don’t like the terms “positive rights”...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
I’ve written a couple of times about a disturbingly large share of young people support statist economic policies. A good example can be seen in this polling data from the Pew Research Center (relevant data circled in red). Christopher Ingraham wrote about this survey...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 28, 2020 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Professor James Buchanan won a Nobel Prize for developing the theory of “public choice,” which looks at how politicians, bureaucrats, and voters seek to maximize their self interest, generally in ways that lead to an ever-expanding burden of government. Some people...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 27, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
When examining state public policy, big jurisdictions such as California, Texas, New York, and Florida get a lot of attention. But what about Mississippi? It has mediocre scores for overall economic policy. It’s #29 according to the American Legislative Exchange...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 26, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m going to break tradition. Normally, I use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to explain how the Pilgrims almost starved to death because they initially used a socialist system for farming, but then began to prosper once the colony shifted to a property rights-based...
