by Dan Mitchell | Dec 11, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’ve written about how our friends on the left represent the rich, and pointed out how big parts of their agenda are designed to help people with above-average incomes. Today, let’s have some fun with that issue. Bernie Sanders has three houses, yet complains about...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
I’ve written a couple of times about a disturbingly large share of young people support statist economic policies. A good example can be seen in this polling data from the Pew Research Center (relevant data circled in red). Christopher Ingraham wrote about this survey...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 28, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Given my complete and utter disdain for socialism, I’m obviously a big fan of this discussion between Rand Paul and John Stossel. In the video, Paul and Stossel draw a distinction between market-friendly welfare states in Scandinavia and genuinely socialist nations...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Every so often, I’ll grouse about media sloppiness/media bias, most often from the Washington Post or New York Times, but also from other outlets (Reuters, Time, ABC, the Associated Press, etc). Let’s add to the collection today by perusing an interesting – but...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 24, 2020 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Townhall on September 23, 2020. For a long time, other nations have been free riders on America’s innovative pharmaceutical industry. Worse, they have enacted socialist price controls to limit what they pay knowing that the largest market would...