by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Because of his extremist views, I often refer to Senator Sanders as “Crazy Bernie.” You can argue I’m being unfair. After all, I pointed out during the last campaign that his voting record in the Senate was almost identical to the voting records of Hillary Clinton and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say that their goal of “democratic socialism” is very different from the socialism of Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, as well as the socialism of the former Soviet Union. And they doubtlessly would get...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I started fretting about the socialist tendencies of young people early last decade. And when Sanders attracted a lot of youth support in 2016, I gave the issue even more attention, and I’ve since continued to investigate why so many young people are sympathetic to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 15, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I’ve written about some of Elizabeth Warren’s statist proposals, but watching last night’s Democratic debate convinced me that I need to pay more attention to Bernie Sanders’ agenda. When he ran for president last time, I warned that his platform of $18 trillion of...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Yesterday, most of us celebrated Christmas. Today, all of us should celebrate the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which officially happened on this date in 1991 (aided and abetted by a Texas grocery store). A 2016 FEE column by Richard Ebeling documents...
