by Dan Mitchell | Oct 14, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a fan of the International Monetary Fund. Like many other international bureaucracies, it pushes a statist agenda. The IMF’s support for bad policy gets me so agitated that I’ve sometimes referred to it as the “dumpster fire” or “Dr. Kevorkian” of the global...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Back in 2013, when I was still doing a “question of the week” column, I suggested that Australian was the best option for those contemplating a new home in the event of some sort of Greek-style fiscal collapse in the United States. I pointed out that America wasn’t in...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 12, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
When writing about the Obamacare and its birth-control mandate, I’ve made a handful of observations. First, it is very bureaucratic and inefficient to use insurance for routine medical expenses. Sort of like using auto insurance to cover the cost of getting an oil...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 11, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
In my ideal world, we’re having a substantive debate about corporate tax policy, double taxation, marginal tax rates, and fundamental tax reform (plus spending restraint so big tax cuts are feasible). Sadly, we don’t live in my ideal world (other than my Georgia...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I shared some academic research last year showing that top-level inventors are very sensitive to tax policy and that they migrate from high-tax nations to low-tax jurisdictions. Now we have some new scholarly research showing that they also migrate from high-tax...
