by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Regulations, Society
Thanks to decades of experience and research, we now know several things about so-called anti-money laundering (AML) laws. They don’t reduce crime or discourage bad behavior. They require banks to spy on innocent people and report their transactions. They impose heavy...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2017 | Blogs, Europe
Defenders of civil liberties have won big victories against gun control in the United States. The fight certainly isn’t over, to be sure, but most Americans have some degree of freedom to own guns, carry guns, and protect themselves with guns. By contrast, the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 29, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society, Welfare and Entitlements
Whenever there’s a terrorist attack, I automatically feel a combination of anger, horror, and sadness. Like all normal people. But it’s then just a matter of time before I also begin to wonder whether we’ll learn that the dirtbag terrorist was financed by welfare....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society, Welfare and Entitlements
Whenever mass shootings occur, some people quickly jump to conclusions before there’s any evidence. Folks on the right are occasionally guilty of immediately assuming Islamic terrorism, which is somewhat understandable. Folks on the left, meanwhile, are sometimes...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 6, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
When I was young and innocent, I thought that giving welfare handouts to advocates of terrorism was the most perverse and disgusting way to abuse taxpayers. Now that I’m old and jaded, I’ve learned that governments are so masochistically stupid that they routinely...
