by Dan Mitchell | Mar 2, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
The class-warfare crowd and tax lawyers don’t have a lot in common, but both groups oppose the flat tax. An even stranger unholy alliance involves the War on Drugs, which has the support of both the activists who despise drugs and the criminals who get rich...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation, Uncategorized
Last summer, I provided testimony to the United Nations’ High-Level Panel on Financial Accountability Transparency & Integrity. I touched on many issues, but my testimony focused on some core principles of sensible taxation. Low marginal tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Simply stated, the Paris-based international bureaucracy represents the interests of governments, and that means the OECD often pushes policies that serve the interests of...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 26, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
I repeatedly write about the importance of economic growth, usually citing data about gross domestic product (GDP), which is defined as “a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve written many times about the spectacularly positive impact of pro-market reforms in Chile. The shift toward free markets, which began in the mid-1970s, was especially beneficial for the less fortunate (see here, here,...
