by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
My previous columns about the Transportation Security Administration have focused on bureaucratic inefficiency and incompetence (as well as laughable examples of “security theater”). Today, let’s take advantage of the shutdown and focus instead on why TSA should be...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
I don’t care about the current shutdown battle, but I still feel compelled to add my two cents when people make silly arguments about the economy suffering because government is temporarily spending less money. This is actually a two-part debate. From a microeconomic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
The most persuasive data, when comparing the United States and Scandinavia, are the numbers showing that Americans of Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian descent produce much more prosperity than those who remained in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
It seems like every Democrat in the country plans to run against Trump in 2020 and presumably all of them will feel compelled to issue manifestos outlining their policy agendas. Which gives me lots of material for my daily column. I’ve previously written about statist...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
If nothing else, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives me a lot to write about…and to laugh about. I recently pontificated about her crazy idea to impose a top tax rate of 70 percent, which would reverse the very successful experiment we had in the 1980s (and presumably have...
