by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
I wrote earlier this year about the connection between a morally corrupt welfare state and the riots in the United Kingdom. But what’s happening now is not just some left-wing punks engaging in political street theater. Instead, the U.K. is dealing with a bigger...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 2, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Tax Competition, Taxation
Now that the debt-limit fight is basically over (the Senate will join the House in approving it later today), we need to immediately prepare for the next stage in the fight to stop big government and restore economic liberty. President Obama and other leftists clearly...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 28, 2011 | Blogs, Health Care
A couple of years ago, Paul Krugman assured us that government-run healthcare was a good idea, writing that “In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We’ve all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Last week, we compared a bone-headed display tpqof incompetence by the German government with a perverse form of harassment by a local government in the United States. We have another America-v-Europe contest, but the roles are reversed. This time, the buffoons in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
Somebody just sent me a story from the UK-based Daily Telegraph about two little boys who got in trouble for playing army at school. You may think I’m joking, but here’s a blurb from the report. Staff at Nathaniel Newton Infant School in Nuneaton, Warwickshire,...
