by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I sometimes joke that the French are the world’s most statist people. I have no idea if that is actually true, but the latest protests in France certainly are a good piece of evidence. French workers (especially government bureaucrats) are protesting a plan to...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 5, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Hugo Chavez is a palpably evil thug, and he confirms this status with a new proposal to issue cards that almost certainly will be used to ration food. Left-wing despots claim that their policies put “people above profits,” but they never can explain why people...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
One of the big problems with statists is that they define compassion incorrectly. They think they are being compassionate when they take other people’s money and give it to somebody that they define as being less fortunate. But genuine compassion occurs when you spend...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
In a very predictable editorial this morning, the New York Times pontificated in favor of higher taxes. Compared to Paul Krugman’s rant earlier in the week, which featured the laughable assertion that letting people keep more of the money they earn is akin to sending...
by Brian Garst | Aug 19, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative Education Fund, recently wrote to the Baltimore Sun to stick up for Maryland’s sin taxes. He seems to view it as the obligation of government to reduce activities it determines to be...
