by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m part of a just-posted online Debate Club sponsored by U.S. News & World Report which asks “Is the United States a Nation of ‘Makers and Takers?’” My contribution to the discussion is basically a reworked version of what I wrote last week about Romney and the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 22, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Taxation
I realize it’s wrong, but I can’t help cheering for France’s socialist president. Francois Hollande seems determined to raise every tax, expand every program, and augment every bit of red tape that afflicts the French economy. I fully expect this to end poorly, but at...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 17, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs
I don’t like coercive redistribution. But I really hate redistribution from ordinary people to rich and powerful vested interests, and I even developed an “ethical bleeding heart” rule to express my disdain for this approach. Especially since programs that...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2012 | Blogs, Europe, Tax Competition, Taxation
Ayn Rand’s famous novel, Atlas Shrugged, tells the story of what happens when society’s most productive people go on strike because they don’t want to subsidize the looters and moochers. I won’t give away the plot, but one interesting twist in the story is when...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote a celebratory post last November about the dramatic difference between Americans and Europeans. There truly is American exceptionalism in that Europeans are much more likely to think it is government’s responsibility to provide the basics of life. Another poll...
