by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve already shared four contestants for the counter-tweet of the year. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think freebies are the route to political success. Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think capitalism is correlated with poverty. Slapping...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
Back in 2016, I sarcastically opined that our leftist friends should be nice to upper-income taxpayers. Why? Because those are the people who pay a hugely disproportionate share of taxes. So if you like big government, you should be very friendly...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 30, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Yesterday’s column mocked the the socialist mayoral candidate who won the Democratic primary in New York City. As I noted, Zohran Mamdani is an AOC-style hard-core leftist who wants to travel in the wrong direction as far and as fast as Javier...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 25, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
Which leftists are worse, the ones who pontificate in favor of higher taxes but aggressively and hypocritically seek to protect their own money? Or the ones who genuinely worship government and sincerely believe that the government should...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
Today, voters in New York City may elect a lunatic leftist as Mayor, following Chicago into the toilet of statism. Is that the most important election of 2025? Later this year, voters in Argentina will decide in mid-term elections whether...
