by Dan Mitchell | Nov 23, 2017 | Blogs, Free Market
The biggest Thanksgiving tradition in America is a turkey dinner. Some people also have a secondary tradition of watching football. But libertarians can be a bit quirky, so my secondary tradition has been to periodically share (in 2010, in 2013, and in 2016) a video...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 24, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
What’s the fundamental problem with redistributionist economic policy? As a libertarian, I would answer with a philosophical argument against coercion. I think it is immoral for vote-seeking politicians, using the threat of imprisonment, to rob Peter to subsidize...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 26, 2010 | Blogs, Economics
There’s an odd debate in the blogosphere. As happens every Thanksgiving, libertarians and conservatives take joy in pointing out that there was mass starvation and suffering during the early years of the Plymouth Colony because of a socialist economic model. Here’s...
