When I wrote last week about renewed bipartisan interest in a destructive carbon tax, I noted that support from big government proponents would be forthcoming due to the prospect of putting more money in the hands of politicians. Here’s what I said: The motives of the left in pushing for a tax are easy to […]

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is heavily subsidized by US taxpayers, but spends a lot of time pushing an agenda against taxpayer interests. Richard Billies recently did a good job recounting the OECD’s ongoing list of big government initiatives: …The organization is fundamentally a pro-big government bureaucracy that promotes all of the social welfare […]

Despite considerable rhetoric from politicians about cutting spending and reducing the size of government, there’s been little in the way of actual results. At best a few promise for future cuts have been secured, but we know what those are worth. A good measure of the seriousness, or lack thereof, with which Congress approaches cutting […]

CF&P’s Brian Garst, in an editorial for the Daily Caller yesterday, observes a disturbing trend in the rhetoric of this year’s Presidential campaign. An unholy alliance of political opportunists and long-time opponents of tax competition has formed and is playing on populist economic fears to advance an agenda that threatens to curtail basic economic liberties. […]

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), through its Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, claims that it is working to “ensure that all jurisdictions adhere to the same high standard of international cooperation in tax matters.” CF&P has long pointed out that the OECD’s real objective is to […]

The price of American citizenship only seems to get costlier – and I’m not just talking about high taxes. For Americans living or working overseas, excessive US regulations are becoming a disruptive burden, as exemplified by this disclaimer from Swiss PKB Privatbank brought to our attention by good friend Dr. Eduardo Morgan of Morgan and […]

While the two chambers of Congress work to reconcile the differences between their respective transportation bills, CF&P continues to monitor an unrelated tax provision known as the “Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act” that was slipped into the Senate version by Sen. Carl Levin, a frequent source of anti-tax haven demagoguery. The Act would grant the […]