To Protect Non-Profit Donors from Government Persecution, Limit IRS Data Collection

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 16, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Privacy

It’s a judgement call, of course, but I think the IRS’s suppression of the Tea Partywas the worst of all the Obama-era scandals. Some people say the green-energy scams like Solyndra should be at the top of the list, but steering taxpayer money to campaign donors was...

Is Asset Forfeiture Disgusting, Nauseating, Reprehensible, Despicable, or Awful?

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs

On several occasions, I’ve shared horror stories of government brutality and asserted that all decent people should be libertarians. If you still are not convinced, today we’re going to look at seven stories about so-called civil asset forfeiture, which is a sanitized...

Who Deserves Blame for the Oppressive Tax System, the IRS or Politicians?

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation

For the past 30 years, I’ve been criticizing both the tax code and the IRS. Which raises an interesting chicken-or-egg question about who should be blamed for our nightmarish tax system. Should we blame IRS bureaucrats, who have a dismal track record of abusing...

The Importance of Property Rights – with South Africa as a Sad Example of What Not to Do

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 2, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market

There’s an easy way to judge whether countries have good economic policy or bad economic policy. Simply look at the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World and check out a nation’s absolute score as well as how it ranks relative to other nations. The EFW...

A Visceral Cheer for the Motorist Who Destroyed D.C.’s Speed-Trap Cameras

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2018 | Blogs, Crime, Society

I periodically fret that individualism is dying in the United States and that Americans are morphing into handout-loving Europeans. Well, the spirit of 1776 is not completely dead. There are still some Americans who stand up against the greedy, grasping, and...