The Texas Grocery Store that Helped Push the Evil Empire on to the Ash Heap of History

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics

Whenever I need to explain the difference between socialism and capitalism, I start by noting that socialism technically is different from Obama-style big-government redistributionism and cronyism. Socialism involves something more pervasive, involving government...

Using Civil Disobedience to Fight the Regulatory State

by Dan Mitchell | May 10, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations

Civil disobedience is a powerful and traditional way for Americans to resist bad government policy. The most famous example is the way civil rights leaders used disobedience(and armed self defense) to help end the Jim Crow laws imposed by state governments. It’s also...

Government Coercion Is the Common Link between Nazism, Communism, and other forms of Socialism

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Society

Is Obama a socialist? If you’re asking whether he’s a big-spending interventionist, the answer is yes. But if you’re asking whether the President believes in government ownership of the means of production (which is the defining issue in the socialist economic...

The Biggest Risk Factor Leading to Premature Death Is…?

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs

Nope, the answer isn’t smoking. Or fatty food. Or 16 oz. sodas. And it’s not alcohol, driving too fast, or standing between politicians and a TV camera. In the past 100 years or so, the biggest cause of premature death has been government. Back in 2011,...

The Pervasive Evil of Communism…and the Moral Bankruptcy of Communist Apologists

by Dan Mitchell | Aug 25, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs

I spoke earlier today at the 2013 Liberty Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. But I don’t think anybody is going to remember my speech about the collapse of the welfare state, even though I presented lots of powerful data from the BIS, OECD, and IMF, and also shared...