by Dan Mitchell | May 11, 2026 | Blogs, Taxation
Last year, as part of a series of short videos on what is needed to complete Argentina’s economic rejuvenation, I shared this video on the nation’s anti-growth tax system. Since the videos were kept deliberately short, I didn’t have an opportunity explain the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 10, 2026 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Government Spending, Taxation
Sixteen years ago, I wrote a celebratory column because Romanian lawmakers opted to keep their flat tax, notwithstanding pressure from international bureaucracies. Unfortunately, something bad has occurred since that time. Here’s a chart, based on the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 4, 2026 | Blogs, Economics, Flat Tax, Taxation
CF&P released this video back in 2010, but I don’t think I’ve re-shared it since 2016, so let’s begin today’s column with a reminder that it is possible to have a simple and fair tax system. But since I’m an economist, I couldn’t resist pointing out in the video...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2025 | Blogs, States, Taxation
In 1972, Ohio politicians made the mistake of imposing a state income tax. That first tax had a top rate of 3.5 percent, but politicians quickly became addicted to this new source of tax revenue. By 1984, the top rate had jumped to 9.5 percent....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, States, Taxation
As illustrated by the changes in my state tax rankings between 2018 and 2023, there’s been a lot of progress. Several red states have shifted to flat taxes and lowered tax rates, putting the class-warfare blue states at an even bigger...
