by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve called for the abolition of the Department of Transportation on more than one occasion, so I was very excited to see this new video about infrastructure from Johan Norberg. Very well put. As Johan says (channeling Bastiat), we should remember that jobs are...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Regulations
I routinely grouse about the heavy economic cost of red tape. I’ve also highlighted agencies (such as the EEOC) that seem especially prone to senseless regulations. And I’ve explained why private regulation actually is a very effective way of promoting health and...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Financial Privacy, Society
Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, the federal government (as well as other governments around the world) began to adopt policies based on the idea that crime could be reduced if you somehow could make it very difficult for criminals to use the money they illegally...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2015 | Blogs, Economics
Since it’s basically a way of protecting property rights, environmental protection is a legitimate function of government. That’s the easy part. It gets a lot harder when calculating costs and benefits. Everyone surely agrees that a chemical company shouldn’t be able...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2015 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I proposed an “IQ Test for Criminals and Liberals” back in 2012 which asked readers to imagine that they were thieves. And I then asked them, as they were planning their crimes, how they would react if they knew that a particular homeowner was armed. Would they: a....
