by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
My all-time most-viewed blog post wasn’t the parable about beer and the tax system. Nor was it the joke about California, Texas, and the Coyote. Those won the silver and bronze trophies. The gold medal belongs to the two pictures that explain how the welfare...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
When I posted a video about “libertarian porn” back in 2010, readers presumably were either relieved or disappointed that there was no nudity. I may get the same reaction today, because we’re going to have a discussion – but only G-rated – about what our British...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
There’s an old joke about two guys camping in the woods, when suddenly they see a hungry bear charging over a hill in their direction. One of the guys starts lacing up his sneakers and his friend says, “What are you doing? You can’t outrun a bear.” The other guys...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 10, 2014 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
Washington is in the middle of another debate about redistributing money. But that’s hardly newsworthy. Politics, after all, is basically a never-ending racket in which insiders buy votes and accumulate power with other people’s money. The current debate about...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I’ve shared many charts over the years, but two of the most compelling ones deal with poverty. The numbers in this chart, which are based on Census Bureau data and scholarly studies (see here, here, here, and here), show that the poverty rate was steadily...
