by Dan Mitchell | Feb 20, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
Back in 2014, I shared some data from the Tax Foundation that measured the degree to which various developed nations punished high-income earners. This measure of relative “progressivity” focused on personal income taxes. And that’s important because that levy often...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
All forms of statism are despicable because they’re morally and practically evil. They’re morally evil since they’re based on coercion. And they’re practically evil since they deliver such awful results for ordinary people. The good news is that some forms of statism...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 18, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve written many times that Washington is both a corrupt city and a corrupting city. My point is that decent people go into government and all too often wind up losing their ethical values as they learn to “play the game.” I often joke that these are people who start...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2017 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation, VAT
Back in 2009, I shared the results of a very helpful study by Pierre Bessard of Switzerland’s Liberal Institute (by the way, “liberal” in Europe means pro-market or “classical liberal“). Pierre ranked the then-30 member nations of the Organization for Economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
The Index of Economic Freedom is my favorite annual publication from the Heritage Foundation. It’s a rich source of information, using dozens of data sources, about economic liberty around the world. I first wrote about the Index back in 2010 and shared the bad news...
