by Dan Mitchell | Mar 30, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
I wrote about “Coronavirus and Big Government” on March 22 and then followed up on March 27 with “Coronavirus and Big Government, Part II.” Now it’s time for the third installment, and we’ll start with this hard-hitting video from Reason, which shows how red tape has...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Motivated in part by a sensible desire for free trade, six nations from Western Europe signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957, thus creating the European Economic Community (EEC). Sort of a European version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (now known as USMCA)....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Five days ago, I wrote “Coronavirus and Big Government” to highlight how sloth-like bureaucracy and stifling red tape deserve much of the blame for America’s slow response to the crisis. And I started that column by sharing four points from a previous column on...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve discussed a bunch of coronavirus-related issues, ranging from big-picture topics such as the proper role of government and the catastrophic downsides of excessive bureaucracy to more-focused topics such as how gun control puts...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
I wrote yesterday how cumbersome bureaucracies and foolish regulations have hindered an effective response to the coronavirus. This isn’t because governments are run by bad people. Some of them probably are that way, of course, but the real problem is that politicians...
