by Dan Mitchell | May 11, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
When I write about America’s awful tax code, I generally focus on anti-growth policies such as high tax rates, the bias against saving and investment, and nightmarish and costly complexity. But there’s actually a fourth problem of “worldwide taxation”...
by Dan Mitchell | May 9, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m currently in Finland for meetings with various people and I learned that the country’s bloated public sector and expensive welfare state are imposing a very heavy cost on the economy. How heavy of a cost? According to IMF data, there’s...
by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2025 | Blogs, Trade
When I debate with supporters of Trump’s protectionism, their most common talking point is that other nations take advantage of the United States because we allow their companies to sell goods and services without restriction. By contrast, they impose...
by Dan Mitchell | May 7, 2025 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Free Market, Taxation
I’m in Estonia as part of the Free Market Road Show, so this is a good opportunity for Part III of my series on that country’s rebound from communism. To follow up on Part I and Part II, let’s start with this Fraser Institute video. I’ve always...
by Dan Mitchell | May 6, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
The 1841 Foundation has released a new version of the Tax Hell Index. And just like last year and in 2022, let’s see what nations qualified because of the combination of bad fiscal policy and low-quality governance. There is a tie for the...
