This article appeared in Offshore Investment.
Andrew F. Quinlan
Andrew F. Quinlan was a co-founder of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and served as its president for over 20 years.
Before CF&P, Andrew was Senior Economic Analyst for the Republican National Committee, and then served as a top staff member for New Jersey Congressman Jim Saxton, including as senior advisor to the Joint Economic Committee.
Andrew passed away in 2022.
FATCA’s Self-Inflicted Wounds
The destruction caused by the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has been well covered by CF&P and others. Among other things, the law is scaring foreign investment out of the economy, turning US citizens abroad into toxic assets, and redirecting…
Bono Defends Tax Competition
Bono recently made waves for defending capitalism and its role in alleviating poverty. Rock stars aren’t supposed to express appreciation for the same free markets that have made them wealthy. But not only has he witnessed first hand how markets work to bring…
FATCA: The end of financial privacy
This article appeared in The Daily Caller.
Will Regulators Kill Bitcoin?
Bitcoin, a digital cryptocurrency, is a potentially disruptive technology offering both social and economic gains. While the technology that has revolutionized peer-to-peer payments is growing in popularity, it is nevertheless vulnerable to being stamped out by…
Pentagon still wasting money on flawed missile program
This article appeared in The Washington Examiner.
Limbaugh Cites Dan Mitchell on Government Shutdown
I was on the road this afternoon when I caught on the radio Rush Limbaugh’s mention of a 2011 article by CF&P Chairman Dan Mitchell, in which he argued against the conventional wisdom that the 1995 government shut down harmed Republicans. This debate matters…
Latest Delay Exposes FATCA’s Fatal Flaws
Since its passage in 2010, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act has been delayed multiple times. Most recently the Treasury Department has pushed back 6 months the beginning of FATCA’s withholding penalty for noncompliant institutions, from January 1, 2014 to…
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Blasts FATCA
Few know better than Americans living overseas the punitive and capricious nature of U.S. tax policy. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, law professor and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Colleen Graffy provided a clear and concise accounting of…
The Radical Agenda of the OECD
This article appeared in La Prensa.