by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2026 | Blogs, Economics
When writing about corporate taxes and the Laffer Curve, I almost always will share these two charts from left-leaning, pro-tax international bureaucracies. This first chart is from the International Monetary Fund and it shows that corporate tax...
by Dan Mitchell | May 17, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation, Trade
Trade taxes are bad for the economy (see here, here, and here). But that’s hardly a shocking revelation. That’s the nature of taxation (personal income taxes also are bad for the economy, as are corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 3, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
In Part I of this series back in 2014, we looked at some academic research from Canada showing that the revenue-maximizing tax rate on the richest taxpayers was 27.5 percent. A key insight from that research is that high-income taxpayers have...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
Unless you’re a policy wonk, I realize “exciting” may not be the right word to describe new developments in public-finance economics. For nerds, however, three economists at the Joint Committee on Taxation have some important new research on the Laffer...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Given my libertarian sensibilities, I think people who earn money deserve to keep as much of their income as possible. At least 90 percent. Given my economic training, I think people who earn money should get to keep as much of their income as possible because I...
