by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
One of the more interesting policy debates, both in America and around the world, is whether convoluted and counterproductive welfare states should be scrapped and replaced with a “basic income” payment from the government. Finland is experimenting with the concept....
by Dan Mitchell | May 2, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve previously argued that private property rights are a vital component of a pro-environment agenda. Interestingly, the Washington Post sort of agrees. At least with regards to fisheries. In a recent editorial, it acknowledged that the current communal system...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Since Pope Francis is very critical of capitalism, I suppose it’s fitting that he had a special meeting with America’s crazy-Uncle-in-the-attic, Bernie Sanders. With my sixth-grade sense of humor, I confess that my initial instinct (perhaps motivated by the famous...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
The debate over socialism shouldn’t even exist. Everywhere big government has been tried, it has failed. And we have reams of evidence that free-market economies dramatically out-perform statist economies. Yet the siren song of socialism still appeals to a subsection...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Government Spending, Taxation
With both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders agitating for higher taxes (and with more than a few Republicans also favoring more revenue because they don’t want to do any heavy lifting to restrain a growing burden of government), it’s time to examine the real-world...
