by Dan Mitchell | Jan 4, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I remember feeling like an outlier a few years ago when so many people were waxing rhapsodic about a glowing economic outlook for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. These so-called BRICS nations were enjoying some decent growth at the time, but I was not...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
On rare occasions, our government-loving friends let their guard down and say things that reveal the true nature of leftism as a punitive philosophy that subjugates the individual to the state. An English leftist named Richard Murphy, for instance, actually argued...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 5, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs
Two years ago, I wrote that Washington’s parasite class was having a very merry Christmas. But I wasn’t mocking welfare recipients, many of whom actually deserve sympathy for getting trapped in the web of government dependency. Instead, I was referring to the unearned...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2015 | Blogs, Society
I’ve admitted before that I have no idea whether global warming is a real problem, but I can say with considerable certainty that there are two reasons why I’m very skeptical of the environmental policy agenda. First, the serious environmentalists believe in central...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 21, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Welfare and Entitlements
Whenever there’s a discussion of the Nordic nations, I feel conflicted. I don’t like the punitively high tax rates and socially destructive levels of redistribution in nations such as Denmark, but I also admire the very laissez-faire policies those countries have when...
