by Sven R. Larson | Feb 12, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
As the new young radical Democrats in Congress ramp up their efforts to advance their ideology, Republicans have started labeling their ideas “socialism”. From this, one could easily get the impression that the 2020 election is shaping up to be an ideological...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
As an economic system for a nation, socialism is a miserable failure. Especially real socialism (government ownership of the means of productions, government-dictated prices, etc). But that doesn’t stop some people from defending socialism. They claim the theory is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation, Welfare and Entitlements
If nothing else, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives me a lot to write about…and to laugh about. I recently pontificated about her crazy idea to impose a top tax rate of 70 percent, which would reverse the very successful experiment we had in the 1980s (and presumably have...
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...
