by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs
Like its evil twin of Nazism, communism is an utterly despicable ideology that explicitly elevates the state over the individual. That’s actually the nicest thing that can be said about this barbaric system. If you want to begin to understand the human cost of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs
As a libertarian who became interested in public policy because of Ronald Reagan, it won’t surprise you to know that I’m more of a “right libertarian” than “left libertarian.” I fully agree with positions that motivate left libertarians, such as the war on drugs doing...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2012 | Blogs, Free Market
The 2012 Index of Economic Freedom has just been released. This is my favorite publication from the Heritage Foundation, and second only to the Economic Freedom of the World Index as a measure of global public policy. The news scores for 2012 are not pretty. We have...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 4, 2012 | Blogs, Free Market
Since starting this blog, I’ve cited several columns by Walter Williams (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), in large part because he’s so good at explaining economic concepts, but also because he’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Last year, I came up with a saying that “Bad Government Policy Begets More Bad Government Policy” and labeled it “Mitchell’s Law” during a bout of narcissism. There are lots of examples of this phenomenon, such as the misguided War on Drugs being a precursor to...
