by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2018 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Better economic performance is the most important reason to adopt pro-growth reforms such as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Even small increases in economic growth – especially if sustained over time – can translate into meaningful improvements in living...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Though it gets strong competition from the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development wins the prize for being the worst international bureaucracy. The Paris-based organization is infamous for pushing a statist agenda on a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve written dozens of columns about the Laffer Curve and its implications. My favorite may be the one that pointed out why it generally is misguided to raise tax rates even if the government would collect more revenue (i.e., don’t give politicians $1 if it means...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
On several occasions, I’ve shared horror stories of government brutality and asserted that all decent people should be libertarians. If you still are not convinced, today we’re going to look at seven stories about so-called civil asset forfeiture, which is a sanitized...
by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy
When I first created the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame, I confess that my standards were a bit slack. I awarded membership to government workers that are grossly overpaid (see here and here, for instance), but otherwise didn’t really do anything special to merit awards. In...
