by Dan Mitchell | Mar 30, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Redistribution has a corrosive impact on both ends. Recipients are harmed because they get trapped in dependency, and workers are harmed because taxes discourage productive behavior. Yet young people seem susceptible to this ideology, even when they are among the main...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
It seems like every Democrat in the country plans to run against Trump in 2020 and presumably all of them will feel compelled to issue manifestos outlining their policy agendas. Which gives me lots of material for my daily column. I’ve previously written about statist...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 10, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
There was a book last decade by Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, that asked why lower-income voters in the state didn’t vote for greater levels of redistribution. The author claimed these voters were sidetracked by cultural issues, which may very well be...
by Sven R. Larson | Dec 3, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
On Fox News on Sunday November 18, Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney referred to the agenda of the new Democrat House majority as “socialist”. She even went as far as to compare it to the Soviet Union: I think the real Russia threat, Maria, is when you look at the kind...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
Washington is a place that gets infatuated with trendy ideas. A few years ago, everyone was talking about a “universal basic income” because of the strange assumption that millions of people will be unemployable in the future. That idea was mostly embraced by folks on...
