by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Regulations
When the current health crisis heated up, I wrote a column on “Government, Coronavirus, and Libertarianism” and made four simple points. Libertarians believe government should protect life, liberty, and property Libertarians correctly warn that a big sprawling federal...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2020 | Taxation
There will be many lessons that we hopefully learn from the current crisis, most notably that it’s foolish to give so much regulatory power to sloth-like bureaucracies such as the FDA and CDC. Today, I want to focus on a longer-run lesson, which is how tax policy...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2020 | Blogs, Society
About 10 years ago, when Europe was in the midst of fiscal crisis, advocates for welfare spending rioted in some nations. Given the continent’s grim long-run outlook, that got me thinking about the potential for a future breakdown of civil order and I wrote that it...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2020 | Blogs, Health Care
I wrote last week about the libertarian response to the coronavirus crisis and made four simple points. Governments should focus on protecting life, liberty, and property. That includes fighting pandemics. A big sprawling federal government will be less capable and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2020 | Blogs, Europe, Health Care
I wrote recently how government regulation and bureaucratic inefficiency are hindering an effective response to coronavirus in the United States. And I also wrote yesterday about one foolish response from Washington to the crisis. But what about developments in other...
