by Dan Mitchell | May 7, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
What word best describes the actions of government? Would it be greed? How about thuggery? Or cronyism? Writing for Reason, Eric Boehm has a story showing that “all of the above” may be the right answer. At first it seems like a story about government greed. When Mats...
by Dan Mitchell | May 4, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the points I repeatedly make is that big government breeds corruption for the simple reason that politicians have more power to reward friends and punish enemies. It’s especially nauseating when big companies learn that they can get in bed with big government...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 24, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Every so often, I share an image that is unambiguously depressing. Usually because it suggests that freedom is slowly eroding. A chart showing that corporations are using cronyism to pad their bottom line. A table on the rapid rise of dependency in the United States....
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 18, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve written many times that Washington is both a corrupt city and a corrupting city. My point is that decent people go into government and all too often wind up losing their ethical values as they learn to “play the game.” I often joke that these are people who start...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
In one of my periodic attempts to create themes for these columns, I developed a “fiscal fights with friends” category. Part I was a response to Riehan Salam’s well-meaning critique of the flat tax. Part II was a response to a good-but-timid fiscal plan from folks at...
