by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
It’s not easy being a libertarian, especially in election years. Do you choose not to vote because you either reject your choices or even the entire principle of majoritarianism? Do you vote for the Libertarian Party even though that historically is nothing more than...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 23, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
It sounds arcane and pedantic, but the United States has a democratic system of government but is not (or at least was not) designed to be a democracy. A democracy implies that 51 percent of the people have the power to elect agovernment with unlimited powers to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
There are many reasons why I don’t like the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international bureaucracy that ostensibly represents the developed world but in reality is controlled by European welfare states. The main problem is that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
Socialism is a very bad concept. It deserves mockery rather than respect. But that’s true of all statist ideologies. Last year, as part of a column on the collapse of the Soviet Empire, I put together a statism spectrum showing the degree to which various nations...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Who is the worst President in U.S. history? No, regardless of polling data, the answer is not Barack Obama. Or even Jimmy Carter. Those guys are amateurs. At the bottom of the list is probably Woodrow Wilson, who gave us both the income tax and the Federal Reserve....
