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Obamacare: A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme for Washington Insiders 26 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Want to know why – as shown by this map – most of America’s richest counties are part of the metropolitan DC region? Part of the answer is that federal bureaucrats are overpaid. Another part of the a...
The Pervasive Evil of Communism…and the Moral Bankruptcy of Communist Apologists 25 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
I spoke earlier today at the 2013 Liberty Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. But I don’t think anybody is going to remember my speech about the collapse of the welfare state, even though I presented...
Why Tax Migration and Federalism Mean Doom for Left-Wing States such as New York, California, and Illinois 24 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
Maybe this means I’m not a nice person (notwithstanding my high score for tenderness in a recent test), but I can’t help but be happy when I read bad news about fiscal policy in high-tax welfare state...
A “Moderate” Dan Mitchell with “Few Strong Opinions” for a Kinder, Gentler Era of “Tenderness” 23 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
Early this year, I took a libertarian purity test put together by Professor Bryan Caplan at George Mason University. The good news is that I got a 94. Sounds like a solid A, right? Well, the bad new...
Obamanomics, as Captured by Cartoonists 22 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
As evidenced by my political cartoon contest, I’m a big fan of that form of satire. And if I’m looking at cartoons specifically about statist economic policy, my favorites include Chuck Asay’s dead p...
Least. Surprising. Headline. Ever. 21 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
As illustrated by this chart, economists are lousy forecasters. To be more specific, economists are no better than fortune tellers when trying to make short-run macroeconomic forecasts. Heck, if we a...
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Which States Provide the Most Handouts of All? 20 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
About two years ago, I shared a map put together by a pro-statism organization that supposedly showed that welfare benefits were very miserly and not sufficiently generous to lift people out of povert...
The Common-Sense Case for Dynamic Scoring 19 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
As regular readers know, one of my great challenges in life is trying to educate policy makers about the Laffer Curve, which is simply a way of illustrating that government won’t collect any revenue i...
Another Great Moment in the Annals of Absurd Government Law Enforcement 18 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
Government officials do some really crazy things in the name of law enforcement. I recently wrote about an armed raid on an animal shelter in order to execute a baby deer. That was paramilitary over...
Why Did the Libertarian Chicken Cross the Road? 17 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
The good thing about being a libertarian is that you are motivated by freedom, which is a very noble principle, and you have lots of evidence on your side, whether the issue is economics or personal l...
