by Dan Mitchell | Feb 7, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Economics, Education, Government Spending, Society
For both moral reasons and economic reasons, we should have small government. But even a curmudgeonly libertarian like me also thinks it’s important to have effective and efficient government. Fortunately, there’s no contradiction between these views. Indeed, academic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2015 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Back in 2013, I shared a snarky post comparing murder rates in Chicago and Houston. What made the data amusing is that any sensible person would look at Chicago’s high murder rate and strict gun control and conclude that perhaps, just maybe, such policies don’t work....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2015 | Blogs, Crime, Society
It’s probably not a fun time to be a police officer. The deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York have led some – including the Mayor of New York City – to explicitly or implicitly accuse cops of systemic racism. And then you have folks like me,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Crime, Society
According to Gallup, Americans now identify “government” as the most important problem facing the United States. That doesn’t surprise. Gallup also found last year that big government is considered a far greater danger to the nation that big business or big labor....
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society
I wrote last week about the lunacy of a tax system that created the conditions that led to the death of Eric Garner in New York City. But I wrote that column in the context of how high tax rates lead to tax avoidance and tax evasion. Let’s now zoom out and look at the...
