by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Learning from the tremendous success of welfare reform during the Clinton Administration, the entire Washington-based welfare state should be junked. It’s a complicated and costly mess that traps poor people in dependency while ripping off taxpayers and creating very...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 12, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
Earlier this year, I borrowed from Dante’s Inferno and created the Five Circles of Statist Hell. At the time, I suggested that Venezuela was on the cusp of moving from the third circle (“widespread poverty and economic misery”) to the fourth circle (“systematic and...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
What’s the fundamental problem with redistributionist economic policy? As a libertarian, I would answer with a philosophical argument against coercion. I think it is immoral for vote-seeking politicians, using the threat of imprisonment, to rob Peter to subsidize...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 22, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Because of my disdain for the two statists that were nominated by the Republicans and Democrats, I’m trying to ignore the election. But every so often, something gets said or written that cries out for analysis. Today is one of those days. Hillary Clinton has an...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Over the years, I’ve shared some clever images, jokes, and cartoons to expose the flawed mindset of those who hope to achieve coerced equality of outcomes with redistribution and high tax rates. The size of a pizza vs the share of a slice. The modern version of the...
