by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
This is the type of story that makes me sick to my stomach. I’ve already commented on how I don’t like redistribution from rich to poor, but I really, really hate redistribution from poor to rich. And that’s exactly what happens when taxpayers subsidize the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
A former Cato colleague, Will Wilkinson, made one of the most astute and powerful observations I have ever read when he wrote that, “…the more power the government has to pick winners and losers, the more power rich people will have relative to poor people.”I thought...
by CF&P | Jan 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Walter Williams has a column about the House GOP’s commitment to make sure legislation is consistent with the Constitution. As with most things he writes, it is very much worth reading. Walter starts by explaining what Boehner and the rest of the Republicans have...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 7, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Health Care, Taxation
Grousing about the GOP’s timidity in the battle against big government will probably become an ongoing theme over the next few months, and let’s start with two items that don’t bode well for fiscal discipline. First, it appears that Republicans didn’t really mean it...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
House Republicans will read the Constitution today, out loud, on the floor of the House of Representatives. I’m guessing this is how some politicians will react. More accurately, this is how they would react if the Supreme Court actually upheld the Founding Fathers’...