by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2022 | Blogs, Health Care
The health care system in the United States is expensive and inefficient, and both of those problems are caused by government. More specifically, politicians have enacted laws (everything from the tax code’s exclusion of fringe...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2022 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
I wrote last month about a tax-and-spend proposal for single-payer healthcare in California (sort of a state version of “Medicare for All“). I also analyzed the scheme in this discussion with Gene Tunny of Australia. What’s remarkable, as Gene mentioned in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
I wrote back in 2012 that California voters opted for “slow-motion economic suicide” by voting to raise the state’s top income tax rate to 13.3 percent. Sure enough, having the nation’s highest state income tax rate has been bad news. More and...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 23, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
The healthcare sector is a tragic example of Mitchell’s Law in action, with politicians expanding the role of government in response to problems (rising prices and inefficiency) caused by previous expansions of government. The...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
Just like I’ve never had (until recently) any reason to define capitalism, I also have never felt any need to define libertarianism. Some people use the non-aggression principle, but that strikes me as more of a statement about how we should behave. What if...
