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 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I cover a wide range of issues in this interview for Bloomberg Asia. My main theme, not surprisingly, is that government is too big. And I specifically warn about the looming explosion of entitlement spending as the baby boom generation retires.
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 8, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
President Obama just spoke about the downgrade and his remarks were very disappointing. He uttered some empty platitudes, offered no plan, (amazingly) called for more government spending, and continued his advocacy of class-warfare taxation. So what does this mean?...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 7, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
It was a strange experience to read the comments and emails generated by yesterday’s post on the “Obama downgrade.” Democrats and liberals were upset that I blamed Obama for the downgrade, as you might expect. Republicans and conservatives, however, were agitated that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2011 | Blogs, Health Care
A couple of years ago, Paul Krugman assured us that government-run healthcare was a good idea, writing that “In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We’ve all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are...
