Daniel J. Mitchell is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, the free-market, Washington D.C. think tank. His articles are cross-posted on his blog, by agreement.
Four reasons to applaud Apple’s tax planning
Here are four things you need to know about Apple's tax planning
- 22 May 2013
Is underwear a legitimate function of the federal government?
Any government that has $400,000 to spend on a cigarette vest obviously has far too much money on its hands
- 15 May 2013
Going Galt: More Americans vote with their feet against Obama
It's a damning indictment of Obamanomics that more and more people are ditching their U.S. passport to escape America's tax system
- 13 May 2013
Which presidents are right about government, Washington and Jefferson or Wilson and Obama?
Welcome to the U.S. President Hall of Shame
- 10 May 2013
If you outlaw pencils, only outlaws will have pencils
In the United States you can own a tank or a machine gun. You can also get suspended from school if you're a seven-year-old boy making shooting noises while holding a pencil
- 9 May 2013
Krugton the Invincible?
One side of the economic debate can declare victory and spike the football, but it’s not Paul Krugman and the Keynesians
- 2 May 2013
A libertarian quandary: Should drugs be legalised if it means bigger government?
Should drugs be legalised if it means bigger government?
- 30 April 2013
The taxpayer-subsidised Tsarnaev family
Welfare state funding for bad behaviour or general laziness is one thing. Funding terrorism is a whole new level of craziness
- 29 April 2013
Immigration, terrorism, and welfare tourism
So we’ve now learned that the Boston Marathon terrorists were welfare bums. Why am I not surprised?
- 24 April 2013
The UK boldly rejoins the government incompetence contest
Bureaucrats and politicians want to run our lives, but they’re some of the world’s least competent people
- 18 April 2013
Welfare handouts for promoting terrorism
The US welfare system, with whatever flaws it might have now or in the future, presumably will never be as crazy as the system in the United Kingdom
- 15 April 2013
Powerful anti-gun control data – from crime fighters
Police officers are against gun control. Overwhelmingly so according to this recent polling data
- 11 April 2013
Bush, Dole, W., McCain, and Romney: Libertarians?
Libertarians already face an uphill battle. The last thing we need is to be linked to a bunch of big-government Republicans
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Question of the week: What’s the right point on the Laffer Curve?
The simple answer is that the tax rate should be set to finance the legitimate functions of government. But that leads to an obvious follow-up question. What are those legitimate functions?
- 1 April 2013
The horrifying human cost of the welfare state
The British welfare state is creating multi-generational poverty and misery
- 22 March 2013
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- Major incident in South London with reports of shootings and a beheading
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- Swastika flag flies over Palestinian village
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- MPAC Woolwich response betrays British Muslims
- NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns
- Sunday Times blood libel cartoon, on Holocaust Memorial Day no less
- Palestinian jailed for Facebook like
- 'Muslim Patrol' vigilantes attempt to control London streets
- Saudi cleric who raped and killed daughter receives small fine
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