by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2022 | Blogs
Most people I know try to avoid serving on a jury, but I might enjoy the experience if I had the opportunity to engage in “jury nullification.” For those not familiar, jury nullification occurs when jurors decide that a defendant is “not guilty” simply...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 18, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
I celebrate when my friends on the left stumble into economic insights. For instance, many of them sound like Milton Friedman when they pontificate in favor of higher tobacco taxes because they want people to smoke fewer cigarettes. As a libertarian, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
There are all sorts of reasons to dislike the Food & Drug Administration. Based on the number of lives lost, the bureaucracy’s foot-dragging on drug approval would be at the top of the list. Though the FDA’s inefficiencies also resulted...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
It is not difficult to understand the economics of taxation. Simply stated, the more you tax of something, the less you get of it. You can show the adverse impact of taxation with supply-and-demand curves (very helpful for understanding “deadweight loss“). But...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2021 | Blogs, Education
I don’t like Joe Biden being a lackey of the teacher unions, and I think the entire Department of Education should be eliminated. That being said, intervention from Washington is the not the main cause of America’s education problems. The real...
