by Dan Mitchell Most people would say high prices are the biggest problem with health care in the United States. But …
Rand Stalls single-handedly stalls $40Billion Government Spend – Is rekt for his stance
Rand Paul single-handedly delays Senate approval of $40B Ukraine aid package. https://t.co/ymFfNomDhB — NBC News (@NBCNews) May 13, 2022 Sen. …
Government Controlled Gas Stations?
Today we present Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe #128 POLITICIANS LOVE TO PAT THEMSELVES ON THE BACK, AND NOW THEY’RE …
The 10 Richest People in the World
Wow! Did you know that the 10 richest people in the world control $1.3 trillion in wealth? Don’t believe me? …
The 16th Amendment: How the U.S. Federal Income Tax Became D.C.’s Favorite Political Weapon
The American Revolution was sparked in part by unjust taxation. After all, the colonists in Boston rebelled against Britain for imposing “taxation …
Biden’s Farcical Tax Plan
by Dan Mitchell I’ve already written that massive spending increases for various bureaucracies is the most offensive part of Biden’s new budget. But …
Digital Tyranny: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.” …
“More nonsense from President Biden” – Arkansas Congressman
Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., ripped President Biden on “Mornings with Maria” on Tuesday over his argument the day before that rising prices in the …
Omnibus: The Avalanches of DC Money Are All Problems – No Solutions
by Seton Motley Shocker: DC’s latest spending disaster – is a disaster. Sweeping Spending Increases Are Set to Become Law With …
What Is “Rent Seeking”?
by Dan Mitchell I’ve written columns about wonky economic concepts such as “deadweight loss” and “public goods.” Today’s topic is “rent …
Dan says: “we don’t want to maximize revenue for politicians”
The Laffer Curve is a method for illustrating the relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue. But it’s important to realize …
The Biden Energy Plan
Biden Asks Asian Countries To Release Oil Reserves As Administration Scrambles To Combat High Gas Prices: REPORT https://t.co/nrJN3yMFBn — Daily …
‘Build Back Better’ Budget Gets ‘F’ for Second Grade Math
By Deroy Murdock , a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor, a contributing editor with National Review Online, and a senior fellow with …
The Big Squeeze: Biden’s Inflation Costing Families $2.1K a year
BREAKING: Inflation was up 5.4% over last year in September – the highest rate in 13 years. Prices rose 0.4% …
Cradle to Grave Waste in Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan
Congressional Democrats are proposing to spend an enormous amount of taxpayer dollars on what The New York Times calls “cradle to …
Dr. Rand Paul Introduces the Five Penny Plan to Balance the Federal Budget in Five Years
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced his “Five Penny Plan” federal budget resolution that will balance within five years. Dr. Paul …
Economics Humor
by Dan Mitchell I have plenty of politician humor, collectivism humor, libertarian humor, and gun control humor. I also have big-government humor and European humor. But only a …
Does Biden deserve credit for job gains?
Biden and his advisors have no idea how they got to where they are and no plan to unleash the …
Well that’s freaking embarrassing: BidenHarris $2+ Trillion ‘Jobs Plan’ Will REDUCE ⬇︎ Employment
President Biden has touted his proposed $2+ trillion in “infrastructure” spending, which also includes all sorts of unrelated partisan waste, as …
Why inflation is at a 12-year high
By Peter Jacobsen FEE Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released numbers indicating that the average price level of …
This Cartoon Shows How the Minimum Wage Works
By Mark J. Perry, American Enterprise Institute. Today’s news from the White House is that President Joe Biden will continue …
Celebrating Calvin Coolidge
by Dan Mitchell In my lifetime, the only good president has been Ronald Reagan, whose policies restored America’s economy and led to the end of …
Meet the $2 million (government) bathroom
John Stossel investigates a New York City park bathroom that cost $2 million to build. Why? Rules and regulations. Government …
Why I’m More Terrified of the Democrat’s Covid Spending Bill than Covid Itself
“The Three Stooges of the Apocalypse have discovered ‘free money’ is good politics, but only in the short-term.” By Catherine Mortensen …
What the Administration is about to get horribly wrong (again)
Biden’s Misguided Keynesian “Stimulus” by Dan Mitchell We have decades of real-world experience with Keynesian economics. The results are not pretty. It didn’t work for Hoover. …
It will take years to recover the 8 million jobs still lost to Covid and state lockdowns
The latest unemployment figures from states shows that eleven states engaged in the most draconian economic shutdowns all have significantly …
New Zealand’s Path to Prosperity Began With Rejecting Democratic Socialism
For producing both material goods and personal fulfillment, freedom makes all the difference in the world. One country that proved …
6 Bleak Consequences From CBO’s Report on the $15 Minimum Wage
Rising incomes are a great thing, and it would be wonderful if all jobs paid at least $15 per hour. …
The World’s Most Economically Illiterate Statement
by Dan Mitchell Back in 2014, I shared two videos, one narrated by Prof. Don Boudreaux and the other narrated by Prof. Deirdre McCloskey, …
The Case Against Class-Warfare Tax Policy
by Dan Mitchell I’ve shared three reasons why Biden’s tax plan is misguided (the tax code is biased against rich taxpayers, the …