by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2018 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
I don’t like it when voters support tax increases. Needless to say, voters rarely if ever vote to raise their own taxes. Instead, they get seduced into robbing their neighbors in exchange for the promise of new goodies from politicians. Regardless, it’s still very...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) must be anxious to get on my list of government bureaucracies that shouldn’t exist. The bureaucrats have engaged in some really silly and petty behavior (such as confiscating Airsoft toy guns because they might be...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
Government subsidies have an unfortunate habit of causing widespread economic damage and often result in huge burdens for taxpayers (though sometimes consumers are the ones getting pillaged). Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subsidies contributed to a massive housing...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 24, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
In my writings about “Great Moments in Foreign Government,” I’ve come across amazing examples of bone-headed and incompetent behavior by politicians and bureaucrats in other nations. The British government giving welfare to people with multiple wives. The German...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
Every so often, I run across a chart, cartoon, or story that captures the essence of an issue. And when that happens, I make it part of my “everything you need to know” series. I don’t actually think those columns tell us everything we need to know, of course, but...
