Limited vs. Big Government
How to Encourage Tech Competition: Deregulate Finance | Iain Murray
We should be looking not to the 1930s for a solution to perceived problems of corporate dominance, but to the future-to a world where financiers and entrepreneurs can work together to create the innovations that will create wealth and make our lives better.
The Dystopian Threat of Universal "Benefits" | Paul Cwik
There is a danger in these universal programs. They might be economically efficient. (I doubt it, but let's assume that it is true.) The deeper point is that under these contracts you are giving up your sovereignty. Do you own yourself? Or does the State own you?
France Shows What You Actually Get with Democratic Socialism | Bill Wirtz
The labor union activists are equally upset by the liberalization of the rail market which is being initiated by the European Union. Through the "Mobility Pack" coming from Brussels, Paris will be obligated to open regional train travel to competition from next year on.
Bernie Sanders Doesn't Understand How Jobs Are Created | Brittany Hunter
Sanders has made a habit of trying to make federal programs more akin to the Oprah Winfrey Show, promising to provide market commodities, like health care and college, for free in the same way Winfrey gives away cars and gifts to her audience members.
France Shows What You Actually Get with Democratic Socialism | Bill Wirtz
The labor union activists are equally upset by the liberalization of the rail market which is being initiated by the European Union. Through the "Mobility Pack" coming from Brussels, Paris will be obligated to open regional train travel to competition from next year on.
Genuine Free Markets Easily Out-Perform "State-Led Capitalism" | Daniel J. Mitchell
Statists are crafty. Most of them are clever enough that they don't embrace full-scale socialism. Instead, they push for an ad hoc approach based on subsidies, bailouts, social engineering, price controls, and other forms of intervention. If you want to get technical, they're actually pushing a variant of fascism, with nominal private ownership but government direction and control.
Why Socialism Means Slavery | Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer: "The essential question is-How much is he compelled to labour for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labour for his own benefit? The degree of his slavery varies according to the ratio between that which he is forced to yield up and that which he is allowed to retain; and it matters not whether his master is a single person or a society.
Why the Social Engineers of the Sixties Failed to Make a "Great Society" | Richard M. Ebeling
What guided the Great Society agenda was an arrogant pretense of knowledge. There was a general attitude among many economists and a large number of self-proclaimed social critics that most of the "evils" of the world-poverty, illiteracy, lack of decent housing or medical care, and environmental degradation-were all due to a lack of willpower and well-intentioned and implemented policy.
Amazon Controversy Makes the Case for a Private-Sector US Postal Service | James L. Gattuso
Amazon is using the Postal Service as its delivery boy, complains the president. But others point out that that is exactly what the government-owned enterprise exists to do-and that without Amazon's business, the Postal Service would be far worse off. As is the case with most such business questions, neither side can be definitively proven right or wrong.
3 Facepalm Moments in Regulation | Daniel J. Mitchell
But one thing I've learned over the years is that I'm not normal. Most people don't get excited about these macro-type calculations. Instead, they're far more likely to get agitated by regulations that make their daily lives a hassle. Such as: I certainly can sympathize.
Administrative Law Is the Real 'Deep State' | Daniel J. Mitchell
To be blunt, the people in Washington don't have the competence to design, implement, and enforce any type of master plan. Yes, we have a Leviathan state, but it's much more accurate to think of Uncle Sam as a covetous, obese, and blundering oaf.
What's My Alternative to Big Government? How about Giving Freedom a Chance | Robert Higgs
My own alternative is simply freedom. Get the government completely out of whatever it is now doing so badly, whether it be educating youth, protecting the public from crime, or keeping the economy in flourishing operation.
The Texas Grocery Store that Helped Push the Evil Empire on to the Ash Heap of History
Whenever I need to explain the difference between socialism and capitalism, I start by noting that socialism technically is different from Obama-style big-government redistributionism and cronyism. Socialism involves something more pervasive, involving government ownership of the means of production (which, if you read this postscript, is why Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom is far...
Once Again, the FDA Is Making Life Harder for Sick People | Jen Maffessanti
The government has already wrecked severe pain management in its crusade against opioid abuse while having no discernable impact on the rate of overdoses. But instead of making it easier for addicts to get help, they've instead opted to make over-the-counter treatment of a fairly common ailment more difficult.
Government-Mandated Benefits Suppress Workers' Wages
Shortly before he was sworn in as the governor of New Jersey, Democrat Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, said: This state, under the current leadership, has gotten into the belief that if I give something to you, it comes at my expense. That's a myth.
Socialism Is Harder than You Think | Scott Sumner
Suppose you wanted to switch to socialism - what would be the ideal place to do so? You'd want a country with extremely high quality civil servants. That would be France. You'd want a country where socialism is not a dirty word, and capitalism is. That would be France.
Welfare by Government Contradicts Welfare | Baruti Libre Kafele
For more than 50 years, we've had the misconception that welfare is the responsibility of the government: the delusion that it is the government's role to provide financial aid, food stamps, child care assistance, healthcare, subsidies for farmers, and other benefits to underprivileged and impoverished citizens or suffering companies.
Undeniable: Welfare Reform Increased Work and Reduced Poverty | Scott Winship
There's a big give-away that liberals are making claims about the purported dangers of welfare reform they can't support. Their primary claims are twofold. The left asserts that welfare reform in 1996 was harmful - or would have been without expansions elsewhere in the safety net.
Food Stamps Are Making Recipients Fat and Sick | James Bovard
Perhaps the most controversial element of the Trump administration's budget is the proposal to reduce food stamp spending by 25% or $193 billion over the next decade. Forty-four million people currently receive food stamps, more than twice as many as at the end of the Clinton administration.
Government Pest Control Only Breeds More Pests | Caleb S. Fuller
While occupying Delhi in the early 20th century, British forces found themselves confronting an unfamiliar and fearsome pest: cobras. Seeking to eradicate them, authorities devised a bounty program to reward anyone presenting a cobra tail. The bounty quickly incentivized an increase in the quantity supplied of severed cobra tails, simultaneously incentivizing people to breed snakes.
Castro Undeniably Impoverished Cuba | Tim Worstall
And that was the great economic disaster, the grand mistake. That scientific socialism of the Soviet type makes one great claim-or at least it did when it could still be said without people bursting into great gales of laughter.
Child Labor Was Wiped Out by Markets, Not Government | Antony Davies
In 1938 the US government passed the Fair Labor Standards Act mandating a forty hour work week, establishing a minimum wage, and prohibiting child labor. Because of legislation like this, government is often credited for making the American work environment safer and more fair.
