Fiscal Sovereignty

Protecting Fiscal Sovereignty is essential to preserving international liberty and prosperity. The right of each nation to set its own fiscal policy is essential to preserving tax competition, serving as the last line of defense against the efforts of politicians who seek to replace tax competition with a tax cartel, or an “OPEC for politicians.” Just as the real OPEC extracts more money from energy consumers, a tax cartel would grab more money from taxpayers.

Additional Resources:

Alex Wright, “Expert debunks ‘offshore world’ myths,” The Royal Gazette, May 18, 2011.
“The Case for Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy,” A Special Tax Competition Conference, October 20, 2009.

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Fiscal Sovereignty Press Releases

CF&P Study: Global Taxes Threaten Fiscal Sovereignty and Democratic Accountability

May 22, 2012

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation released today a new Libertas policy brief highlighting the dangers of proposals coming out of organizations such as the United Nations and World Health Organization to self-fund through global taxes.
CF&P Warns Conferees Against Senator Levin’s Poison Pill Tax Amendment
CF&P President Andrew Quinlan Comments on Levin-Conrad-Whitehouse Amendment to Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill
CF&P Briefs International Businesses on Threats to Tax Competition
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Fiscal Sovereignty Videos

The Paris-Based OECD: Pushing Obama’s Big-Government Agenda With Your Tax Dollars

August 2, 2010

American taxpayers finance nearly one-fourth of the budget for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international bureaucracy that routinely advocates for more government – including more taxes and spending in the United States. In just the past couple of years, the OECD has used American tax dollars to advocate Obamacare-type health policies, push for failed Keynesian stimulus spending, promote Al Gore-style carbon taxes, and urge the enactment a value-added tax. To reduce wasteful spending and protect America’s free market system, American subsidies for this Paris-based bureaucracy should be eliminated.
President Obama's Dishonest Demagoguery on Tax Havens
Tax Havens: Myths vs. Facts
The Moral Case for Tax Havens
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Fiscal Sovereignty Publications

The Case Against Taxing Powers and Direct Funding for International Organizations

May 22, 2012

The issue of taxing powers and direct funding has become an important issue because international organizations are challenging the contribution model and pushing for independent sources of revenue.

OECD Subsidies Are Against U.S. Interests

February 6, 2012

Funding of the OECD should be cutoff until such time as the organization ends its campaign against low-tax jurisdictions and the principles of limited government.

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