by Dan Mitchell | Aug 18, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
For most of the world, American citizenship is highly coveted. Indeed, foreigners have even been willing to invest a lot of money to increase the odds of getting to the United States. But changing one’s nationality is a two-way street. Beginning...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 17, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve written about some boring and arcane tax issues – most of which are only relevant because we don’t have a simple and fair flat tax. Depreciation vs. expensingTerritorial taxation vs. worldwide taxationGILTI rules for multinational...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 16, 2021 | Blogs, Free Market
When writing Friday’s column about Somalia, I noticed that I have not written about the Human Freedom Index (HFI) since 2016 and 2018. Let’s rectify that oversight by highlighting the results from the most-recent edition of that publication. But first, some...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I just got back from Medellin, Colombia, where I gave a presentation to the Liberty International World Conference. My topic was “The Fatal Mix of Demographic Change and the Welfare State” and I made my usual points about how poorly designed entitlement...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2021 | Blogs, Society
Oozing sarcasm, I’ve asked whether Germany, Nigeria, Mexico, and Argentina are libertarian paradises. But, according to this satirical video that I first shared ten years ago, there’s a real libertarian paradise in Somalia. I will admit this...
