by Dan Mitchell | Nov 6, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
The Pope recently made news by urging more compassion for the less fortunate, and he specifically said that raising the issue will lead some to think he’s a communist. Here are some excerpts from a news report in the U.K.-based Independent. In one his longest speeches...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2014 | Blogs
Libertarians are sometimes accused of being unrealistic and impractical because we occasionally talk about unconventional ideas such as competitive currencies and privatized roads. But having a vision of a free society doesn’t mean we’re incapable of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I wouldn’t be too upset about Hillary Clinton winning the White House in 2016, but only if I somehow could be assured that we would get the kind of policies we got when her husband was President. After all, economic freedom increased during the 1990s, largely...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
The world is a laboratory, with lots of experiments to see if a nation can prosper with big government and pervasive intervention. The results are not encouraging. I’ve written about France being a basket case, over and over again. And I am equally pessimistic...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
In my writings on the Laffer Curve, I probably sound like a broken record because I keep warning that a nation should never be at the revenue-maximizing point. That’s because there’s lots of good research showing that there are ever-increasing costs to the economy as...
