by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2021 | Blogs, Health Care
I first wrote about allowing markets for body parts back in 2009 and 2010. Let’s revisit that issue today, starting with John Stossel’s case for legal organ sales in a video for Reason. This should be a slam-dunk issue. I want drugs to be...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2021 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Since yesterday’s column showed “Statism in Five Images,” I feel obliged to provide equal time and now do the same thing for libertarianism. We’ll start with an accurate depiction of how libertarians compare to other ideologies (similar to the triangle I...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Back in 2017, I compared the welfare state vision of “positive rights” with the classical liberal vision of “negative rights.” To elaborate, here’s a video from Learn Liberty that compares these visions. For what it’s worth, I don’t like the terms “positive rights”...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 18, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
Most Republicans and Democrats have a self-interested view of divided government. They obviously prefer if their party controls everything. After all, that’s how Republicans got tax reform in 2017 and it’s how Democrats got Obamacare in 2010. But they also like...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
The good thing about being a libertarian is that real-world events repeatedly demonstrate that your skepticism of big government is fully justified. Nations that adopt dirigiste policies don’t do well. States that adopt dirigiste policies don’t do well....
