by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
I wrote yesterday how cumbersome bureaucracies and foolish regulations have hindered an effective response to the coronavirus. This isn’t because governments are run by bad people. Some of them probably are that way, of course, but the real problem is that politicians...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Regulations
When the current health crisis heated up, I wrote a column on “Government, Coronavirus, and Libertarianism” and made four simple points. Libertarians believe government should protect life, liberty, and property Libertarians correctly warn that a big sprawling federal...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2020 | Taxation
There will be many lessons that we hopefully learn from the current crisis, most notably that it’s foolish to give so much regulatory power to sloth-like bureaucracies such as the FDA and CDC. Today, I want to focus on a longer-run lesson, which is how tax policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 19, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
While it’s good news for the country that Bernie Sanders has faded in the polls, there’s a dark lining to that silver cloud. For all his faults, Crazy Bernie at least was open and honest about his desire for socialism (unlike certain other candidates, who have...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2020 | Blogs, Society
About 10 years ago, when Europe was in the midst of fiscal crisis, advocates for welfare spending rioted in some nations. Given the continent’s grim long-run outlook, that got me thinking about the potential for a future breakdown of civil order and I wrote that it...
