by Dan Mitchell | May 17, 2014 | Blogs, Constitution, Crime, Society
I’ve explained on several occasions (here, here, and here) that we can be optimistic about the fight to preserve our rights to keep and bear arms. Simply stated, politicians are increasingly scared to go after gun owners and we keep seeing more and more evidence that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 23, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending
I’ve complained many times about government intervention in the financial sector. The financial and housing crisis, for instance, was largely a consequence of the Federal Reserve’s easy-money policy, combined with the system of corrupt subsidies put in place by...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 16, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
As a supporter of genuine capitalism, which means the right of contract and the absence of coercion, I don’t think there should be any policies that help or hinder unions. The government should simply be a neutral referee that enforces contracts and upholds the rule...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
The headline of this post might not be completely honest. Indeed, if you asked me to grade the accuracy of my title, I’ll admit right away that it falls into the “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan” category of mendacity. But I’m only prevaricating to set...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2014 | Blogs, Health Care
There’s an old joke that a quandary exists when your mother-in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche. Are you more happy about losing her or more unhappy about losing your sports car? I’m not clever enough to come up with humorous quandaries, but I have shared...
