by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
Last year, I shared the most depressing PowerPoint slide in Danish history. Back in 2011, I wrote about a depressing picture of tax complexity in America. Let’s continue with the “depressing” theme today. James Bessen, from Boston University Law School, has an...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 7, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
My main problem with Hillary Clinton is that she not only supports the bloated and enervating welfare state that already exists, but she wants to make it even bigger. Indeed, there’s only a very small gap between her and crazy Bernie Sanders when you examine their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2016 | Bailouts, Blogs, Health Care
At the risk of understatement, Obamacare is a mess. It’s been bad for taxpayers, bad for consumers, and bad for healthcare. It’s even been bad for some of the special interest groups that backed the legislation. The big insurance companies supported the law, for...
by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2016 | Blogs, Energy
Whether they call it global warming or climate change, activists on the left are acting as if the issue is just an excuse to extort money and expand the power of government. In Part I, I wrote about kleptocrats exploiting the issue to shake down western governments...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I have a collection of columns about “honest leftists” and they mostly fall into two categories. One group is comprised of people who are willing to admit that the statist policies they generally prefer have bad effects (such as gun control encouraging crime...
