by Dan Mitchell | Nov 12, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
Yesterday, I shared part of an interview that focused on Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s scheme to give more subsidies to colleges, thus transferring money from poorer taxpayers to richer taxpayers. Here’s the other part of the interview, which revolved around a very bad idea...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Candidates such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders supposedly are competing for hard-left voters, while candidates such as Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg are going after moderate voters. But a review of Buttigieg’s fiscal policy suggests he may belong in the first...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 10, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I give Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang credit for a bit of honesty. Both of them have proposals to significantly – indeed, dramatically – expand the burden of government spending, and they actually admit their plans will require big tax increases on lower-income and...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2019 | Blogs
Back in 2011, I shared eight short videos that captured the greatness of Ronald Reagan. One of the videos was this excerpt of his famous tear-down-this-wall speech at Brandenburg Gate. In a column for the Washington Examiner, Quin Hillyer explains why this was a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Immigration, Society, Welfare and Entitlements
When non-libertarian audiences ask my opinion about immigration, I generally point out that it is a very good sign that so many people want to come to the United States. Almost everyone agrees with that statement, but that doesn’t put them in the pro-immigration camp....
