by Dan Mitchell | Oct 31, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Thanks to socialism, Venezuela is a basket case. This video from John Stossel asks if the United States can and should learn from this bad example. The easy answer is yes. Indeed, you can click here and here to get 56 examples of why we...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
During his 2012 reelection campaign, Barack Obama created a fictional character named Julia and showed how she could mooch off taxpayers from cradle to grave. Given Biden’s reputation as a plagiarizer, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
After the people of the United Kingdom voted to escape the European Union, I wondered whether the Conservative Party would “find a new Margaret Thatcher” to enact pro-market reforms and thus “take advantage of a golden opportunity” to “prosper in a post-Brexit...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
I don’t know whether to be amused or frustrated, but I can’t help but notice that folks on the left frequently argue that the United States needs to make government bigger in order to “catch up” or “shrink the gap” with Europe. President Biden even has said...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy, Taxation
Remember back when Joe Biden said paying more tax is patriotic? He was being a hypocrite, of course, since he aggressively sought to lower his own tax burden. But he was also behaving exactly as “public choice” theory predicts. Politicians...
