by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I wrote a column earlier this month about the “world’s most depressing tweet,” which came from the Census Bureau and noted that the suburbs of Washington, DC, are the richest parts of America. To be sure, I was engaging in a bit of hyperbole since a tweet about...
by Sven R. Larson | Dec 3, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
On Fox News on Sunday November 18, Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney referred to the agenda of the new Democrat House majority as “socialist”. She even went as far as to compare it to the Soviet Union: I think the real Russia threat, Maria, is when you look at the kind...
by Sven R. Larson | Nov 13, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
It has been a long time since I read a newspaper article that succinctly summarized the total, utter and unmitigated destruction that is socialism, but the November 8 article in the Wall Street Journal (p. A13, print edition) about corporate flight from Venezuela,...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
My left-leaning friends periodically tell me that there’s a big difference between their benign policies of democratic socialism and the wretched track records of Marxist socialism, national socialism, and other forms of totalitarianism. I agree. Living in a European...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 17, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I’ve written many times about socialism, which is sometimes a frustrating task because the definition is slippery. I suspect the average supporter of Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks that socialism is big government, with lots of handouts financed by...
