by Dan Mitchell | Feb 20, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Energy
Remember Solyndra, the festering symbol of green-energy corruption that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money being flushed down the toilet? And that was just one example. Based on the ratio of energy produced compared to insider enrichment,...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
The Internet has made all of our lives better, in part because there’s been an accidental policy of benign neglect from Washington. But that’s about to change. Even though our economy already is burdened by record amounts of regulation and red tape, the FCC is pushing...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
When I write about the “inbred corruption of Washington” or “Washington’s culture of corruption,” I’m not merely taking pot-shots at the political elite. I’m trying to make a very serious point about the way in which big government enables immoral behavior by both...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Back in 2013, I actually wrote something vaguely nice about HBO’s Bill Maher. Or at least I expressed approval for a point he made about the limits of class-warfare taxation. It’s now time to compensate for that action. Check out this interview. It’s about Obama’s new...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care
My Cato Institute colleague Michael Tanner has produced some first-rate substantive research on issues. He produced a study showing that personal retirement accounts would have been a better deal than Social Security even for people who retired at the depth of the...
