by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
This is depressing. Republicans botched the repeal of Obamacare. They’ve already sold out (twice!) on the spending caps in the Budget Control Act, and they’re about to do it again. And now they want to bring back earmarks. In this interview with Neil Cavuto, I explain...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I haven’t written in any detail about “jury nullification” since late 2010 and it’s time to rectify that sin of omission. Nullification occurs when a jury votes not guilty because a law is either unjust or wrongly applied, not because a defendant is actually innocent....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m sometimes accused of being too radical, though I take that as a compliment (including the time a British journalist wrote that I was “a high priest of light tax, small state libertarianism”). In reality, I’m actually a moderate. I don’t want to eliminate all...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
The left’s fixation on reducing inequality is misguided. If they really care about the poor, they instead should focus on reducing poverty. And that means pushing for more growth. We know from U.S. evidence and global evidence that better economic performance is the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 7, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Libertarian Jesus made his first appearance back in 2013 when he cautioned that charity was a personal obligation rather than a government responsibility. He had an encore performance last year when it was revealed that charity and confiscation are not the same...
