by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2020 | Blogs, Crime, Society
One might think that the most poorly governed city is a place such as San Francisco, Detroit, New York City, and Chicago. Or Seattle, if we just count recent history. But let’s not overlook Minneapolis. I wrote two months ago about that city’s hostility to capitalism,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 28, 2020 | Blogs, Taxation
Washington is a cesspool of waste, fraud, and abuse. All taxpayers, to avoid having their income squandered in D.C., should go above and beyond the call of duty to minimize the amount they send to the IRS. Which is why today’s column is a bipartisan love fest for...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 27, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
I’ve previously written that Keynesian economics is like Freddy Kreuger. No matter how many times it is killed off by real-world evidence, it comes back to life whenever a politician wants to justify a vote-buying orgy of new spending. And there will always be...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Some of my right-wing friends complain about “judicial activism,” which seems to mean that they want courts to defer to other branches of government. Since I’m opposed to majoritarianism and because I want courts to defend and protect all parts of the Constitution, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
Last November, I criticized Nancy Pelosi’s scheme to impose European-style price controls on pharmaceutical drugs in the United States. I wasn’t the only one who objected to Pelosi’s reckless idea. We have forty centuries of experience demonstrating that price...
