by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2017 | Blogs, States
When I write about the actions of state governments, it’s usually to highlight a specific bad policy. As you can imagine, states like California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey give me a never-ending amount of material. But I frequently run across...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Time for another trip down Memory Lane to the early years of the Obama Administration. Two days ago, I wrote about the market-wrecking price controls in Obamacare. And yesterday, I shared a new study exposing the utter failure of Obama’s Cash-for-Clunkers scheme. Now...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 8, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Investor’s Business Daily on June 6, 2017. “Main Street” is Americana. Literally, it’s the primary road in a town, but culturally it’s much more than that. Main street is synonymous with mainstream, but it also...
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...
