by Dan Mitchell | May 7, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
What word best describes the actions of government? Would it be greed? How about thuggery? Or cronyism? Writing for Reason, Eric Boehm has a story showing that “all of the above” may be the right answer. At first it seems like a story about government greed. When Mats...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I wrote last year that Venezuela was entering the “fourth circle of statist hell.” How else, after all, can you describe a government that is so venal and incompetent that it resorts to confiscating toys in an effort to strengthen its hold on power? I also wrote last...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Some types of theft are legal in America. But there’s a catch. You can only legally steal if you work for the government. It’s a process called “civil asset forfeiture” and it enables government officials to confiscate your property even if you have not been convicted...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society
One of the unfortunate features of Washington is that people often wind up in places that bring out their worst behaviors. The classic example is Jack Kemp, who did great work as a member of Congress to push a supply-side agenda of low marginal tax rates and less...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Back in the 1980s, I would get very agitated when folks made excuses for brutal communist regimes by asserting that the United States also did bad things. This “moral equivalence” argument is now being recycled by Donald Trump, who basically excuses Putin’s brutality...
