by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
Based on economic trends, I don’t want the United States to copy Canada. But there is one big exception. As explained by John Stossel, we should copy our northern neighbors and privatize air traffic control. I harbor a special distaste for government...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2025 | Blogs, Society
While I have a few opinions related to fires and natural disasters (government firefighters are usually overpaid, FEMA shouldn’t exist, etc), I’m not going to comment on how government officials in California have handled the fire. Simply stated, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2023 | Blogs, Free Market
Governments oftentimes are spectacularly incompetent. And when that happens, it creates an opening for the private sector to step up in rather unexpected ways. I’ve even created a semi-serious, semi-satirical series to commemorate these examples....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2023 | Blogs
Libertarians have a knee-jerk desire to shrink the footprint of government, even advocating for unconventional ideas such as private roads, private mail delivery, private pensions, private money, and private air traffic control. And, as captured by this Reason video,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 29, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs
Earlier this month, I defended Disney’s self-governance status. I wasn’t motivated by the company’s position on Florida education legislation (my view is that all sorts of controversial education issues can and should be solved by...
