by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
The Census Bureau will be releasing new poverty-rate numbers on Thursday and the numbers are expected to show a big move in the wrong direction. Much of the coverage will be on how much the poverty rate increases, with 15 percent being a likely amount according to...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Taxation
Just because something is free, that doesn’t mean there is no cost. This is the core message of Walter Williams’ column, which uses the example of “employer-paid” Social Security taxes to explain how politicians specialize in giving us very expensive things for...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
If you saw the Wall-E movie, you may remember how people morphed into helpless blobs because all their needs were being fulfilled by something called BNL. I realize I’m a quirky libertarian, but the movie made me think about how excessive government is doing something...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
One of the big problems with statists is that they define compassion incorrectly. They think they are being compassionate when they take other people’s money and give it to somebody that they define as being less fortunate. But genuine compassion occurs when you spend...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 3, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
Michelle Obama has a column in the Washington Post about the supposed wonders of giving schools a bigger role in the feeding of children. My first reaction is to roll my eyes. I understand that every First Lady picks a pet cause. I just wish they found causes that...
