by Dan Mitchell | Sep 15, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
Politicians do plenty of bad economic policy. But when do they cross the line to immoral policy? Hard-core libertarians will argue that just about everything the government does is immoral. I agree with them in many cases because I think it if fundamentally wrong...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs
Civil asset forfeiture occurs when bureaucrats literally steal a person’s property when the person hasn’t been convicted – or perhaps not even charged – of any wrongdoing. Citing a nauseating example of this odious practice, I wrote back in...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2021 | Blogs, Crime, Society
When people ask me why I’m a libertarian, I rarely mention high taxes and wasteful spending. Nor do I make philosophical arguments about the non-aggression principle. And it’s also unlikely that I’ll cite Ayn Rand. Instead, I point out...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society
Since I’m an economist specializing in public finance, I get very upset about punitive tax policy and wasteful government spending. But what really gets my blood boiling is reading about the horrific policy of civil asset forfeiture, which literally allows government...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
It’s not easy being a libertarian. Thanks to senseless and harmful government policies, you run the risk of being perpetually outraged. One day, you get angry because an innocent person is being harassed by the bureaucracy. The next day, you’re upset because insiders...
