by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
I’ve written a couple of times about a disturbingly large share of young people support statist economic policies. A good example can be seen in this polling data from the Pew Research Center (relevant data circled in red). Christopher Ingraham wrote about this survey...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 30, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Redistribution has a corrosive impact on both ends. Recipients are harmed because they get trapped in dependency, and workers are harmed because taxes discourage productive behavior. Yet young people seem susceptible to this ideology, even when they are among the main...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
In 2016, I posed a rhetorical question about whether young people are so stupid that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote. After all, many of them thought Bernie Sanders would make a good president (of America, not Greece or Venezuela). Well, maybe we really should...