by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2017 | Blogs, Uncategorized
At the risk of making myself unpopular with some of my fellow libertarians, not all forms of government coercion are created equal. I don’t like redistribution in the United States. I recognize that such programs are financed with taxes and that the internal revenue...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2017 | Blogs
Back in June, I wrote about the bizarre allure of socialism and said that advocates (who generally don’t even know what socialism really means) were some of the most anti-empirical people in the world. …even though the real-world evidence against big government is so...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Back in 2014, I wrote a column asking my leftist friends two very serious questions. And I often repeat these questions when debating proponents of bigger government. Can you name a nation that became rich with statist policies? Can you name a nation that with...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I wrote last year that Venezuela was entering the “fourth circle of statist hell.” How else, after all, can you describe a government that is so venal and incompetent that it resorts to confiscating toys in an effort to strengthen its hold on power? I also wrote last...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2017 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m tempted to say that statism is sort of like a cult. Proponents of socialism and other big-government ideologies have a dogmatic zeal that blinds them to reality. For instance, no nation has ever become rich with big government. But that doesn’t stop leftists from...
