by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve opined that statist policies harm young people. I also shared this video explaining why big government is bad for millennials and the Gen-Z crowd. This should be a slam-dunk issue. After all, don’t they know how the communist world collapsed? Aren’t they aware of...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Three years ago, I shared a cartoon that succinctly summarized the problem with socialism and the welfare state. It’s the same lesson that we also get from Thomas Sowell, which is that redistribution over time creates an ever-larger number of dependents financed by...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 26, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m getting worried that Senator Bernie Sanders is fading in the polls. That doesn’t make me happy. I want Crazy Bernie to stay relevant. Why? Because he’s an endless source of clever satire. Previous editions of Bernie humor can be found here and here. For today’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
It’s difficult to be optimistic about some parts of the world. When I look at Greece and Italy, for instance, I can’t help but think that economic renaissance is very unlikely, in part because of demographics, but even more so because voters have been conditioned to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Cuba has a very sad history. It traded a regular dictatorship for a communist dictatorship six decades ago, and the results have been predictably awful. Oppression, persecution, rationing, spying, deprivation, and suffering are facts of life in that socialist...
