by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
With the surprising success of Senator Bernie Sanders in the last presidential race and the more-recent instant-celebrity status of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, some are wondering if the United States is about to enter a “socialist era”. I’ve criticized...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
It seems like every Democrat in the country plans to run against Trump in 2020 and presumably all of them will feel compelled to issue manifestos outlining their policy agendas. Which gives me lots of material for my daily column. I’ve previously written about statist...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
If nothing else, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives me a lot to write about…and to laugh about. I recently pontificated about her crazy idea to impose a top tax rate of 70 percent, which would reverse the very successful experiment we had in the 1980s (and presumably have...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I cared a lot about the 1995-96 shutdown and the 2013 shutdown because those were battles involving the size and scope of government. But I don’t have a dog in the current fight over immigration and border security. That being said, I told Neil Cavuto that there are...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 11, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
Bernie Sanders is yesterday’s news. Yes, he’s still lovable ol’ Crazy Bernie, but he’s now being overshadowed by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another out-of-the-closet socialist who somehow thinks America should be more like Greece or Venezuela. Brian Riedl...
