by Dan Mitchell | Dec 8, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Society
Is Obama a socialist? If you’re asking whether he’s a big-spending interventionist, the answer is yes. But if you’re asking whether the President believes in government ownership of the means of production (which is the defining issue in the socialist economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
Regular readers may have noticed that I generally say that advocates of big government are “statists.” I could call them “liberals,” but I don’t like that using that term since the early advocates of economic and personal liberty were “classical liberals” such as Adam...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
It’s hard to believe that anybody would classify the Germans as a master race after reading this Spiegel article. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have a nutty (but at least non-coercive) plan for rich people to give away a big share of their fortunes. The German...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 11, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
According to a new poll from a Democratic firm, an astounding 55 percent of people think “socialist” is a term that describes Obama. Here’s a blurb from a National Review post. Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words...
