Tax Competition News
Continental Drift: OECD’s Imported Fiscal Policies for America
This National Taxpayers Union Foundation Policy Paper evaluates the OECD’s recommendations in its latest Economic Survey of the United States, putting the total cost of its proposals at almost $70 billion, while highlighting several red flags, including a predictable effort to stifle tax competition. http://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/continental-drift-oecds-imported-fiscal-policies-for-america
Are International Bureaucrats Winning the War Against Low-Tax Jurisdictions and Fiscal Competition?
Dan Mitchell and Brian Garst survey the increasingly bleak international tax landscape, and provide a path forward for fighting back against the international tax cartel. http://freedomandprosperity.org/2014/opinion-and-commentary/are-international-bureaucrats-winning-the-war-against-low-tax-jurisdictions-and-fiscal-competition
Will the Offshore Industry Go Quietly Into the Night?
CF&P’s Andrew Quinlan and Brian Garst write in Offshore Investment on the disturbing motives behind the OECD’s tax efforts and ask a simple question: will anyone stand up to fight back? http://freedomandprosperity.org/2014/opinion-and-commentary/will-the-offshore-industry-go-quietly-into-the-night/
Two Years Later, This Economics 101 Video Is Still Right!
Third-Party Payer is the Biggest Economic Problem With America’s Health Care System
From the Market Center Blog…
Singapore: A Remarkable Free-Market Success Story
Did you know that civil servants in Singapore get monetary rewards that rise and fall with economic performance. Is that why the nation is doing so well, or is it something more? http://freedomandprosperity.org/2014/blog/singapore-a-remarkable-free-market-success-story/
What Can Hong Kong and Cuba Teach Us about Economic Policy?
Today the two nations couldn’t be more different. That wasn’t always the case. What can we learn from their divergent paths? http://freedomandprosperity.org/2014/blog/big-government/what-can-hong-kong-and-cuba-teach-us-about-economic-policy/
State and Local Governments Have No Fiscal Excuse for Rapacious Revenue-Raising Tactics
A Washington Post columnist says states resort to dishonest revenue raising tactics because they are starved of funds. The facts say otherwise. http://freedomandprosperity.org/2014/blog/big-government/state-and-local-governments-have-no-fiscal-excuse-for-rapacious-revenue-raising-tactics/
