by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Whenever I need to explain the difference between socialism and capitalism, I start by noting that socialism technically is different from Obama-style big-government redistributionism and cronyism. Socialism involves something more pervasive, involving government...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
Back in March, I asked why Republican presidential candidates were willing to openly violate federal anti-bribery law by supporting agriculture subsidies in exchange for campaign loot. My question was merely rhetorical, of course, since politician supposedly aren’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 2, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
What’s worse, Democrats who deliberately seek to make government bigger because of their ideological belief in statism, or Republicans who sort of realize that big government is bad yet make government bigger because of incompetence? I’m not sure, though this is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
Like many Americans, I’m suffering from Obamacare fatigue. Before the law was implemented, I repeatedly explained that more spending and more intervention in the health sector would worsen a system that already was suffering from too much government. And since the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Two days ago, I contrasted the views of Pope Francis and Walter Williams about capitalism and morality. I explained that Walter had the upper hand because free markets are a positive-sum game based on voluntary exchange while redistribution (at best) is a zero-sum...
