by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I wrote last week about evil of totalitarian ideologies such as communism and fascism and pointed out that both antifa and Nazis should be treated with complete disdain and ostracism. And that led me to find common ground with my left-of-center friends, even though I...
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 | Jul 30, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
As a former Connecticut resident, I’m ashamed that my home state, which used to be a success story with no income tax, has morphed into a high-tax welfare state that is now increasingly infamous for the outflow of productive people and taxable income. And even though...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I’m rather pessimistic about Italy. Simply stated, its economy is moribund. If you peruse the OECD’s economic database, you’ll see that both inflation-adjusted GDP and inflation-adjusted private consumption expenditure (in some ways a more accurate measure of actual...
