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....
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I feel sorry for the Venezuelan people, but I’m perversely glad that the country is collapsing. That’s because it’s nice to have proof that Margaret Thatcher was right when she famously warned that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other...
