by Dan Mitchell | Dec 22, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Most politicians are contemptible. They are shallow, grasping, insecure clowns who want to expand the size and scope of government so they have more power to dictate how the rest of us live our lives. To make matters worse, many of them know they are doing the wrong...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 21, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
I have a series of columns where I explore tactical disagreements with folks who generally favor free markets and less government. In Part I, I defended the flat tax, which had been criticized by Reihan Salam In Part II, I explained why I thought a comprehensive...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 20, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation, VAT
A couple of weeks ago, I used a story about a local tax issue in Washington, DC, to make an important point about how new tax increases cause more damage than previous tax increases because “deadweight losses” increase geometrically rather than arithmetically. Simply...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I have many examples of gun control humor, all of which were created to mock anti-2nd Amendment zealotry. But nothing I’ve ever read is as funny as this week’s gun buyback scheme by the Baltimore Police Department, which was organized by anti-gun politicians and...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 18, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
What’s the most inefficient and wasteful part of the federal government? It’s impossible to answer that question without greater detail. Are we supposed to identify the worst cabinet-level department? If that’s the case, then bureaucracies such as the Department of...
