by Dan Mitchell | Oct 15, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
The United Kingdom has one of the most statist healthcare systems in the world. Indeed, my Cato colleague Mike Tanner produced an excellent study showing that the U.K. system is more rigid and centralized than what is found even in nations such as Germany and France....
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2011 | Blogs, Health Care
I’ve written several times about the sometimes-deadly shortcomings of government-run healthcare in the United Kingdom (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), so I like to think I’m relatively immune to being surprised. But this story from the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Every so often, I can’t resist condemning someone for grossly immoral behavior. I beat up on Robert Murphy for stealing the value of someone else’s property. I attacked Olga Stefou for symbolizing the looter-class mentality of Greece. And I mocked Michael Wolfensohn...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
I wrote earlier this year about the connection between a morally corrupt welfare state and the riots in the United Kingdom. But what’s happening now is not just some left-wing punks engaging in political street theater. Instead, the U.K. is dealing with a bigger...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 2, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Tax Competition, Taxation
Now that the debt-limit fight is basically over (the Senate will join the House in approving it later today), we need to immediately prepare for the next stage in the fight to stop big government and restore economic liberty. President Obama and other leftists clearly...
