by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2017 | Blogs
Over the years, I’ve had fun mocking the silly extremism of the environmental movement. Some environmentalists don’t believe in bathing, How about the environmentalists who sterilize themselves to avoid carbon-producing children, Or consider the environmentalists...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian, Supply Side, Taxation
To be blunt, Republicans are heading in the wrong direction on fiscal policy. They have full control of the executive and legislative branches, but instead of using their power to promote Reaganomics, it looks like we’re getting a reincarnation of the big-government...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2017 | Blogs, States
When I write about the actions of state governments, it’s usually to highlight a specific bad policy. As you can imagine, states like California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey give me a never-ending amount of material. But I frequently run across...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 14, 2017 | Blogs, Society
The racist march in Charlottesville, VA, was awful news. The vehicular murder of a woman by one of the racists is even worse news. The good news is that almost everyone in the nation is united in condemning the marchers. I especially like what Senator Ben...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2017 | Blogs
Back in June, I wrote about the bizarre allure of socialism and said that advocates (who generally don’t even know what socialism really means) were some of the most anti-empirical people in the world. …even though the real-world evidence against big government is so...
