by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
The Internet has made all of our lives better, in part because there’s been an accidental policy of benign neglect from Washington. But that’s about to change. Even though our economy already is burdened by record amounts of regulation and red tape, the FCC is pushing...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care
My Cato Institute colleague Michael Tanner has produced some first-rate substantive research on issues. He produced a study showing that personal retirement accounts would have been a better deal than Social Security even for people who retired at the depth of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
How thoughtful. The President gave the economy a special gift before jetting off to Hawaii. The Obama administration is cramming like a college student trying to study for a final exam, publishing more than 1,200 new regulations in the last 15 days alone, according to...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 7, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
When I discuss corporate welfare, my first example is usually the Export-Import Bank. It galls me that taxpayers are coerced into subsidizing some of the world’s biggest corporations. And since I’m an economist, I also don’t like how these subsidies undermine the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
When people ask me why I mock government for being a slovenly, bloated, and malicious entity, I’m sometimes not sure what to say. Do I give them examples of corrupt corporate welfare? Do I share instances of government thuggery? Do I direct them to preposterous...
