by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Like America’s Founders, I like constitutional constraints on government and dislike untrammeled majoritarianism. So my gut instinct is to reject Swiss-style direct democracy as a governing system. Yet I have to give credit to the Swiss people for being very sensible...
by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
One of the more interesting policy debates, both in America and around the world, is whether convoluted and counterproductive welfare states should be scrapped and replaced with a “basic income” payment from the government. Finland is experimenting with the concept....
