The Toulouse Child Killer: Another Case of Welfare Being Used to Subsidize Terrorism?

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements

I’m not a big fan of welfare programs, in part because I sympathize with taxpayers (check out these outrageous examples of waste) but mostly because redistribution programs subsidize poverty and trap people in lives of despair. But as I wrote in 2010, the most...

To Boost Obama’s Redistribution Agenda, OECD Pushes Crazy Assertion that Poverty Is Higher in the U.S. than in Greece, Hungary, Portugal, and Turkey

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2012 | Blogs, Economics

Supporters of individual liberty and national sovereignty have been skeptical of the United Nations, and with good reason. With the support of statists such as George Soros, the U.N. pushes for crazy ideas such as global taxation and global currency. But there’s...

Margaret Thatcher Debunks the Leftist Agenda on Income Equality

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2011 | Blogs, Economics

The statists are making a big issue out of income inequality, hoping to convince ordinary Americans that redistribution is their only hope for a better life. I’ve explained with a pizza analogy that this is horribly misguided because it falsely assumes the economy is...

Is Ireland’s Michael Higgins an Economic Illiterate or a Cynical Hack

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market

I’ve always been proud of my Irish heritage, but now I’m having to reconsider. As is so often the case when something goes awry, the blame belongs to a politician (this Craig Ferguson joke is right on the mark). Michael Higgins, the President-Elect of Ireland, has...

Tom Sowell: So Many Left-Wing Hoaxes to Debunk, So Little Time

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements

I recently posted an excellent video showing how the War on Poverty has been a disaster for both taxpayers and poor people. Let’s now look at a specific example of the income-redistribution racket. Professor Thomas Sowell has a superb column, which begins by noting...