by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
It’s now a pattern. I’ll come across a soul-sapping story about terrible suffering caused by statism in Venezuela and I think the country has hit rock bottom. Such as back in September, when I read about people literally starving. But then I will read another report...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
Writing a column every day is a recipe for making an occasional mistake. Sometimes the errors are minor, such as when I put Tucson in New Mexico rather than Arizona. And sometimes they are less trivial, such as when I mischaracterized subsidies for the Postal Service...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
One of the great insights of “public choice” is that politicians engage in self-serving behavior just like everyone else. But there’s a profound difference between them and us. In the private economy, we can only make ourselves better off by providing value to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 10, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
In my first column on jury nullification, I applauded ordinary citizens for producing a not-guilty verdict when the federal government tried to impose bad U.S. tax law on a Swiss banker who lived in Switzerland and obeyed Swiss law. Simply stated, borders should...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
The biggest victory for taxpayers during the Obama years was the Budget Control Act in 2011, which imposed sequester-enforced caps on discretionary spending. Indeed, that legislation was then followed by a sequester in early 2013, which was a stinging defeat for Obama...
