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Daniel J. Mitchell
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Daniel J. Mitchell writes International Liberty, a personal blog at danieljmitchell.wordpress.com about economics and politics. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers cite Daniel J. Mitchell's blog for economic data and arguments on welfare cliffs, taxation, unemployment and national comparisons, such as US versus Germany GDP and Estonia and Latvia.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Restraining Government in America and Around the World
What Hacker News says?
Causality could go the other way. Consider a rational reaction to being just at the edge of the welfare cliff. If you haven't heard of that, look at the graphs in these two articles: https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/a-picture-o... https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-30/when-work-punished... It's a better deal to earn $29,000 than $69,000 due to the loss of benefits. That means people don't strive…
Comment linking /2012/07/13/a-picture-of-how-redistribution-programs-trap-the-less-fortunate-in-lives-of-dependency/
on “Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot”Submitted Alternate Class Warfare: Workers vs. Looters as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is a funny accusation considering that the U.S.’s advantage over other countries has only grown over the last decade: https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2022/02/05/comparing-e... Germany’s per-capita GDP was 76% of the U.S. in 2015 and is 61% today.
Comment linking /2022/02/05/comparing-economic-growth-united-states-vs-europe/
on “Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally”Submitted A Horrifying Example of Government Handouts and Perverse Incentives as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLatvia and Estonia have had some success relative to other European economies: http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/12/13/estonia-path-to-... http://www.cnbc.com/id/100558455 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/08/estonia-latvia-e... https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/estonia-and... (Of course there's debate over the particulars..)
Comment linking /2012/06/07/estonia-and-austerity-another-exploding-cigar-for-paul-krugman/
on “Spain Is Beyond Doomed: Unemployment Charts”Submitted Was 1356 the Greatest Year in European History? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhy do you say it failed miserably? Compared to what? Why do you think the conditions of that time were a result of legislation being insufficient as opposed to quality of life simply being lower in that period of time? By the same logic I can say that not having minimum wage in the 12th century was the reason why people were suffering. It's entirely true there wasn't a minimum wage at that time either, but it compl…
Comment linking /2012/09/25/assuming-youre-intellectually-lazy-theres-a-very-strong-argument-for-command-and-control-regulation/
on “Powerful Political Forces Are Aligning Behind Minimum Income”Submitted The 10 Most-Likely-to-Default Governments as a story · 1 points
HN discussion1984: Government's Attempt to Control The Mind and Bodies of Its Citizens The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is an American classic which explores the human mind when it comes to power, corruption, control, and the ultimate utopian society. Orwell indirectly proposes that power given to the government will ultimately become corrupt and they will attempt to force all to conform to their one set standard.…
Comment linking /2015/05/19/instead-of-ending-poverty-big-government-subsidizes-dependency/
on “Google and ProPublica team up to build a national hate crime database”You would in fact prune some of the branches from the capital apple tree if that tree was strangling the people harvesting it[0] or poisoning the water supply[1]. None of his trite simplifications[2] of complex systems stand up to reality. 0. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/09/03/is-immigrati... 1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-horn/dimock-penn-lawsuit... 2. https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2015…
Comment linking /2015/04/14/tax-policy-double-taxation-tax-reform-and-the-proper-definition-of-income/
on “The Right Kind of Class Warfare: Workers vs. Looters”Who are YOU to tell ME what I "need"? If you want to "collectively decide" how to "better use" MY money, I can just move it to a different jurisdiction and you'll get what you deserve - nothing. If the value of what your "collective decision" gives me for "60% tax bill" is not there, the money will rightfully leave. There is a great parable explaining how this works: http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/t…
Comment linking /2012/03/18/the-tax-system-explained-in-beer/
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