by Sven R. Larson | Sep 24, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Energy
The 20th century was full of examples, large and small, of what grand-scale economic planning does to an economy, and its people. Sadly, that wealth of experience has not deterred socialists from trying over and over again. One of the many examples of our time is...
by Sven R. Larson | Sep 17, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
I rarely get surprised these days by the pervasive economic illiteracy on the left. Yet precisely that happened when a friend sent me a link to an article in Forbes Magazine from back in April. The article claims that: Walmart’s low-wage workers cost U.S....
by Sven R. Larson | Sep 10, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down, marking the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Thanks in no small part to the bravery and patriotism of President Reagan, the world’s largest socialist experiment collapsed in a pile of rubble. Back then, many people...
by Sven R. Larson | Aug 31, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Government in America is too big. We are not (yet) at European levels, but unless we turn around the reform trend in the welfare state – which currently points to even bigger government in the near future – we are going to end up with the same...
by Sven R. Larson | Aug 20, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
It is easy to laugh at the rise of socialism in the Democrat party and to dismiss it as some crazy left-wing showcase of monumental ignorance. In reality, socialism is the next logical step for the American left in general. The egalitarian ideology from Europe’s...
