Great Moments in Foreign Government

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 16, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care

I saw this odd story about wasteful government spending in James Taranto’s Best of the Web email. The bureaucrats at Britain’s National Health Service are sqandering thousands of dollars to create a giant “Burger Boy” as part of a government...

What If We Could Cheat the Government, Sort of Like the Government Cheats Us?

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Taxation

I have a column in the Washington Times speculating on ways we could lower our tax bills if we could use the same creative accounting that the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation used to help impose Obamacare on the nation: If you’re...

Government Thuggery and Healthcare.

by Dan Mitchell | Apr 8, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Taxation

Congressman Henry Waxman is one of the most odious statists in a town dominated by people who love big government. From his perch as Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, this career politician played a big role in concocting Obamacare – including the...

We'll Pay More and Get Less, but at Least Castro Is Happy with Obamacare.

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care

I actually think this it is unfair to highlight Fidel Castro’s endorsement of Obamacare, but I’m in a grumpy mood because I’ve started a diet, so I’ll simply twist the knife a bit by noting that we probably could improve American healthcare by...

Subsidized Viagra for Sex Offenders: A Fitting Conclusion to the Obamacare Nightmare.

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care

I don’t seem to be as depressed as everyone else about Obamacare, in part because our system is already so distorted and controlled by government that (this is my rough guess, to be sure) all we did was move from a system that is 68 percent run by government to...