It’s bad news for workers.
read more...Mocking the spectacular screw-ups and bizarre blunders that are a feature of all governments.
read more...Some places it just sucks to be a worker.
read more...You can’t have a non-punitive tax system when the government is consuming half of what the private sector produces.
read more...A close race in the international battle of government stupidity.
read more...Belgium shows once again the incompetence of big government.
read more...A lesson in tax economics.
read more...I’m not a big fan of the German government. Angela Merkel has a disturbing desire to impose fiscal and political union on the European continent. And even the supposedly free market Free Democratic Party seems perfectly comfortable with a gradual descent into statism. No wonder I mocked the Washington Post for labeling Germany a “fiscally […]
read more...I’m not talking about secession in the United States, where the issue is linked to the ugliness of slavery (though at least Walter Williams can write about the issue without the risk of being accused of closet racism). But what about Europe? I have a hard time understanding why nations on the other side of […]
read more...The Prosperitas study by Bram de Bruin (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), originally prepared as a masters’ thesis and with assistance from the European Independent Institute (The Hague, The Netherlands) investigates the effect of labour income taxes on the supply of paid labour for several Western countries over the last two decades.
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