by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Like many supporters of individual liberty, I’m an anti-majoritarian. I don’t want my freedom to be at the mercy of 51 percent of the population. For all intents and purposes, I want the Supreme Court to protect the country from democracy. So, based solely on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
A couple of weeks ago, I debunked a remarkably anti-empirical column by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. He claimed that America’s response to the coronavirus was hampered because government is too small, yet the nations he cited as successful role models actually...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 25, 2020 | Blogs
At the risk of understatement, I’m not a fan of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The international bureaucracy is the “Johnny Appleseed” of moral hazard, using bailouts to reward profligate governments and imprudent lenders. The IMF also is infamous for...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 11, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
About three weeks ago, I unveiled the “Seventh Theorem of Government” to support the libertarian proposition that a smaller government will do a better job of fulfilling its legitimate responsibilities. This should not be a controversial concept. There’s plenty...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 10, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Over the past few weeks, I’ve shared headlines and tweets to illustrate how bureaucratic inefficiency and incompetence have hindered an effective response to the coronavirus. Time to beat that dead horse one more time. But not just for the sake of mocking the clowns...
