by Dan Mitchell | Nov 6, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
The Pope recently made news by urging more compassion for the less fortunate, and he specifically said that raising the issue will lead some to think he’s a communist. Here are some excerpts from a news report in the U.K.-based Independent. In one his longest speeches...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 22, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
We know the welfare state is good news for people inside government. Lots of bureaucrats are required, after all, to oversee a plethora of redistribution programs. Walter Williams refers to these paper pushers as poverty pimps, and there’s even a ranking showing which...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Welfare and Entitlements
I haven’t spent much time writing about Thomas Piketty’s inequality book for the simple reason that my goal is economic liberty, not equality. That being said, I think that Piketty is fundamentally misguided even if the goal is helping the poor. Simply stated,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
I’m frequently baffled at the stupidity of Republicans. When they took control of Congress back in 1994, for instance, they had unrestricted ability to get rid of the bureaucrats that generated bad economic analysis at both the Joint Committee on Taxation and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2014 | Blogs, Economics
The political left obviously hopes that it can score political points by pitching some Americans against others with a campaign based on income inequality and class warfare taxation. Is there any merit to this approach? Are the less fortunate suffering because some...
