by Dan Mitchell | May 7, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
When I wrote about “crazy Bernie Sanders” in 2016, I wasn’t just engaging in literary hyperbole. The Vermont Senator is basically an unreconstructed leftist with a disturbing affinity for crackpot ideas and totalitarian regimes. His campaign agenda that year was an...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
A few years ago, John Stossel did an undercover investigation of a government job-training program and he found that the operation was basically a scam. Not that we should be surprised. Back in 2014, I explained to a C-Span audience that a healthy private sector was...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2018 | Blogs, Health Care
I try not to pay much attention to the staffing decisions of President Trump’s “Boston-phone-book presidency.” Yes, I realize those choices are important, but my focus is policy. As such, I don’t have any strong opinions on the ouster of David Shulkin, the now-former...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 29, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
In 2011, I wrote about how taxpayers were getting pillaged to finance a new metro line in Fairfax County, Virginia. But you won’t be surprised to learn that California taxpayers are getting screwed even worse. I’ve since learned, however, that the real experts at...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
Government subsidies have an unfortunate habit of causing widespread economic damage and often result in huge burdens for taxpayers (though sometimes consumers are the ones getting pillaged). Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subsidies contributed to a massive housing...
