by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
Running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Harvard professor and former Obama appointee Elizabeth Warren got her fellow leftists excited when she said, “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody” and added that “…part of the underlying social...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2011 | Blogs, Constitution
As far as I can tell, everything that Thomas Sowell writes is worth reading, but I especially like how he is so effective at linking his arguments to the underlying principles of a free society. And when he writes a column focused on those underlying principles, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Health Care, Welfare and Entitlements
This new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explains why Medicaid should be shifted to the states. As I note in the title of this post, it’s good federalism policy and good fiscal policy. But the video also explains that Medicaid reform is good health...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
It’s 45 minutes long, but this video from the folks at Reason TV is filled with good information on the foolish ideas of central planners who want to control our transportation. You’ll learn in the first half of the video, for instance, how high-speed rail is like...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Financial Privacy, Government Spending
Greetings from Montreux, Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva. There aren’t many places where palm trees are framed by snow-capped mountains. Heck, even I managed to take a decent photo. But let’s shift back to the world of public policy. Every time I’m in...
