by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, States
If you’re a libertarian, you generally don’t act and think like other people. Most folks, when they heard about Governor Christie’s bridge-closing scandal, focused on the potential political ramifications. But not me. My immediate reaction was to think that the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 14, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
My favorite Heritage Foundation publication (other than…ahem…my studies on government spending and the flat tax) is the annual Index of Economic Freedom. Like the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World and the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Every so often, I share stories about the ridiculous and outrageous way in which the federal government squanders our money. So when I saw this New York Post story about the feds pissing away a six-figure sum on condom research, I figured this would be a perfect...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2014 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
Washington is in the middle of another debate about redistributing money. But that’s hardly newsworthy. Politics, after all, is basically a never-ending racket in which insiders buy votes and accumulate power with other people’s money. The current debate about...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 7, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
One of my most widely read – but also most depressing – articles was from about two years ago and it exposed the fact that Washington, DC, is now the nation’s richest region. I explained that Washington is rich because of unearned wealth. Almost all of the loot that...
