This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why a value-added tax would be a dangerous money machine for big government. The evidence from Europe also shows that VATs actually lead to higher income taxes.

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation will co-host a conference on tax competition and financial privacy on October 20, 2009 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. The conference is aimed at educating the public policy community on issues such as tax competition, financial privacy, fiscal sovereignty and corporate taxation.

According to one estimate, freedom to purchase insurance policies issued in other states could save some families as much as 30 percent on their health policies. Unleashing the Constitution’s promise of unfettered interstate commerce is the most effective way of breaking up the inefficient oligopolies created by state politicians.

Building on a previous mini-documentary that focused on theory, this video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation presents real-world data and research showing that the burden of government spending is far too high – not only in the United States (where the Bush-Obama policies have increased the federal budget by more than 100 percent), but also in other nations where government budgets sometimes consume more than one-half of an economy’s output.

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) today released a video on the empirical relationship between the size of government and economic growth.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Global Tax Forum concluded today amidst widespread complaints about the Paris-based bureaucracy’s bad-faith actions. Delegates from low-tax jurisdictions repeatedly remarked that the OECD grossly mischaracterized events in documents that were supposed to summarize prior discussions and form the basis of future reports and actions. Andy Quinlan, President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, commented that, “The OECD engaged in a pervasive pattern of dishonesty in order to advance the bad tax policy of high-tax nations.”

The bureaucrats at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are trying to suppress dissenting voices according to free-market activists who have traveled to Mexico City to defend tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy at the Global Tax Forum.