by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Regulations
While I freely self-identify as a libertarian, I don’t think of myself as a philosophical ideologue. Instead, I’m someone who likes digging into data to determine the impact of government policy. And because I’ve repeatedly noticed that more government...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 31, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs
I normally share this comedy skit every Halloween, but let’s go for a change of pace and peruse this video about the government’s awful system of sugar subsidies. But we do some appropriately themed humor, thanks to the satirists at Babylon Bee. It’s Halloween, which...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
When I wrote yesterday that Trump’s overall rating on economic policy was “bad,” a few people wrote to complain. I did acknowledge in the column that it may be too soon to give the current president a grade, but it’s not looking good. He not only has a bad record on...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Education
As part of National Education Week, I’ve looked at the deterioration of K-12 government schools and also explained why a market-based choice system would be a better alternative. The good news is that we have a choice system for higher education. Students can choose...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 3, 2019 | Blogs, Europe
The Department of Agriculture should be abolished. Yesterday, if possible. It’s basically a welfare scam for politically connected farmers and it undermines the efficiency of America’s agriculture sector. Some of the specific handouts – such as those...
