by Brian Garst | Jun 27, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Shakespeare would likely describe the latest major legislation winding its way through Congress as a piece of legislation crafted by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Rather than address the systemic distortions created by prior government policies,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
Regular readers of this blog know that big corporations often are enemies of free markets and individual liberty. So it is hardly suprising to know that the Business Roundtable, a lobby representing CEOs of major companies, supported the wasteful and ineffective...
by Brian Garst | Jun 19, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Competition, Free Market
The U.S. Postal Service has been hemorrhaging money for decades, and it’s not hard to understand why. As a government protected monopoly, the Postal Service cannot adjust to changing market conditions like an ordinary business. In addition, they are often...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Here’s a cheerful story I saw linked on Drudge, which shows that sometimes rich people are not guilt-ridden statists and instead stand shoulder to shoulder with ordinary people to fight bad government policy. In Australia, the leftist government wants to impose...
by Brian Garst | Jun 16, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market
President Obama used his first televised speech from the Oval Office, ostensibly on the topic of the BP oil spill, to run through his usual speech-making checklist, which includes blaming Bush and beating up on idealogical straw-men, like his long ago debunked...
