by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
I recently posted an excellent video showing how the War on Poverty has been a disaster for both taxpayers and poor people. Let’s now look at a specific example of the income-redistribution racket. Professor Thomas Sowell has a superb column, which begins by noting...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 17, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
Thomas Sowell just completed a three-part “Back to the Future” series, looking at a couple of fiscal policy issues. His unifying theme is how the political class fails (perhaps deliberately) to learn from mistakes. In Part I, he decimates President Obama’s new...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2011 | Blogs, Constitution
As far as I can tell, everything that Thomas Sowell writes is worth reading, but I especially like how he is so effective at linking his arguments to the underlying principles of a free society. And when he writes a column focused on those underlying principles, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Constitution, Crime
In addition to noting that gun control tends to increase crime by reducing the cost of being a criminal (i.e., thugs are less likely to meet armed resistance), Tom Sowell also explains that people who don’t like the Constitution should amend the document rather...
