by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2016 | Blogs, Europe, Society
There are no simple answers to Islamist terrorism, particularly when individual nutjobs are determined to kill a bunch of innocent people. But I know that some answers to the problem are wrong. So when politicians like Hillary Clinton say we should have more gun...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
If you asked a bunch of Republican politicians for their favorite fiscal policy goals, a balanced budget amendment almost certainly would be high on their list. This is very unfortunate. Not because a balanced budget amendment is bad, per se, but mostly because it is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 15, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Something doesn’t add up. People like me have been explaining that California is an example of policies to avoid. Depending on my mood, I’ll refer to the state as the France, Italy, or Greece of the United States. But folks on the left are making the opposite...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 14, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Waste
In 2014, I was outraged that more than 80 percent of senior bureaucrats at the Veterans Administration were awarded bonuses, even though this is the bloated bureaucracy that caused the death of many veterans by putting them on secret waiting lists. This, I argued, was...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 13, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Two months ago, I decided that the new President of the Philippines was the winner of the 2016 award for politician of the year. It takes a remarkable amount of chutzpah, after all, to freely admit to having mistresses (yes, more than one). But the icing on the cake...
