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...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I will occasionally pontificate about a demographic crisis in the developed world, but I usually feel guilty afterward. After all, how can it be a bad thing that we’re living longer? And what gives me the right to grouse about the number of children other families...
