by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve called for the abolition of the Department of Transportation on more than one occasion, so I was very excited to see this new video about infrastructure from Johan Norberg. Very well put. As Johan says (channeling Bastiat), we should remember that jobs are...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 24, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Daily Caller on June 23, 2017. Proponents of the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act from the libertarian Niskanen Center accused critics in a recent op-ed of misleading about the bill, after previously suggesting we were tricked by fake news,...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Apr 16, 2017 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Townhall.com on April 15, 2017. America’s governors want to make sure that Attorney General Jeff Sessions won’t move to override state online gaming laws. The bipartisan heads of the National Governors Association, Virginia Gov....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Minimum Wage
The real world is like a cold shower for our friends on the left. Everywhere they look, there is evidence that jurisdictions with free markets and small government outperform places with big welfare states and lots of intervention. That’s true when comparing nations....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The annual budget for our bloated and sclerotic federal government consumes about $4 trillion of America’s economic output, yet President Trump so far has not proposed to reduce that overall spending burden by even one penny. A few programs are targeted for cuts, to...
