High taxes make corruption less of a problem?
Dan Mitchell
Daniel J. Mitchell is the President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation. Dr. Mitchell advocates limited government and fundamental tax reform, and is the nation’s leading opponent of tax harmonization schemes developed by the Brussels-based European Union, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations.
In addition to fiscal policy, Dr. Mitchell is a trenchant observer of economic developments and an expert on Social Security reform – particularly the fiscal policy impact of reform and what the US can learn from other nations that have created personal retirement accounts.
Greece and the Folly of Trying to Solve an Overspending Problem with Tax Increases
Tax hikes are not “austerity.”
Putin, Trump, and False Moral Equivalence
Sometimes a difference in degree is a difference in kind.
Is Putin Being Honest and Accurate about the Benefits of Russia’s Flat Tax?
More evidence on the impact of low tax rates.
Just Say No to the Debilitating Drug of Keynesian Stimulus
Disagreeing with the free-lunch ideology.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Border-Adjustable Taxation, but Were Afraid (or too Bored) to Ask
Proponents of good policy should never do anything that might create conditions for a VAT in the US.
Smaller Government Is the Best Strategy for Reducing Corruption in Romania
Romanian politicians want get-out-of-jail-free cards.
The Government’s War on Money Laundering Is Causing the Wrong Kind of Casualties
Billions are being squandered to no avail.
Exposing the Cronyist Argument for Carbon Taxes
“Follow the money” when looking at how policy really gets made in Washington.
Five Illuminating Charts and Tables about Trade and Protectionism
Why protectionism is the wrong approach.