by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2013 | Blogs, Health Care
It seems there’s a cottage industry of people in America devoted to making parody videos about one of the world’s most evil statists. And some of them make very strong points about public policy. Here’s Hitler learning about Europe being downgraded. And here’s the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending, Government Waste
The politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists and interest groups in Washington are hyperventilating that the federal gravy train may get sidetracked for a day or two by a shutdown fight between Republicans and Democrats. I’m not sure why they’re so agitated. After all, the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2013 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Maybe it’s because I have a bit of a old-fashioned moralistic streak to me, but I viscerally object to the notion that good people should pay bad people not to do bad things. That’s why, a few years ago, I didn’t react favorably when the former dictator of Libya asked...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2013 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve written before that Obama’s Solyndra-style handouts have been a grotesque waste of tax dollars. I’ve argued that they destroy jobs rather than create jobs. I’ve gone on TV to explain why government intervention in energy creates a cesspool of cronyism. I’ve even...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
As I explained back in April, I’m cautiously optimistic that Obamacare will fall apart for the simple reason that it’s impossible to have a workable government-run healthcare system without the type of brutal rationing and sub-standard care found in places like the...
