by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In an amazing display of incompetence, we still don’t know whether Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg won the Iowa caucus. This has created some opportunities for satire, with people asking how a political party that can’t properly count 200,000 votes somehow can...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Government intervention has made a mess of health care in America. Programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, along with the tax code’s healthcare exclusion, have created a massive third-party-payer problem. The inevitable result is systemic inefficiency and ever-rising...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Candidates such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders supposedly are competing for hard-left voters, while candidates such as Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg are going after moderate voters. But a review of Buttigieg’s fiscal policy suggests he may belong in the first...