Tag Archives : Belgium
Where in the Developed World Are Average Workers Most Over-Taxed?
It’s bad news for workers.
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Great Moments in Foreign Government
Mocking the spectacular screw-ups and bizarre blunders that are a feature of all governments.
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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Where are Workers Pillaged Worst of All?
Some places it just sucks to be a worker.
read more...Main Lesson from Tax Reform in Belgium? It’s Impossible to Have a Good Tax System and a Big Government
You can’t have a non-punitive tax system when the government is consuming half of what the private sector produces.
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Great Moments in Foreign Government
A close race in the international battle of government stupidity.
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In One Phrase, Everything That You Need to Know about the Failure of Big Government
Belgium shows once again the incompetence of big government.
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Rearranging the Deck Chairs Isn’t the Solution for Belgium’s Titanic Tax System
A lesson in tax economics.
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Belgium Must Be Hopeless if Politicians from Brussels Are Criticizing Germany for Being too Capitalistic
I’m not a big fan of the German government. Angela Merkel has a disturbing desire to impose fiscal and political union on the European continent. And even the supposedly free market Free Democratic Party seems perfectly comfortable with a gradual descent into statism. No wonder I mocked the Washington Post for labeling Germany a “fiscally […]
read more...Is Secession a Good Idea?
I’m not talking about secession in the United States, where the issue is linked to the ugliness of slavery (though at least Walter Williams can write about the issue without the risk of being accused of closet racism). But what about Europe? I have a hard time understanding why nations on the other side of […]
read more...Labour Supply and Marginal Tax Rates: A case study of Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
The Prosperitas study by Bram de Bruin (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), originally prepared as a masters’ thesis and with assistance from the European Independent Institute (The Hague, The Netherlands) investigates the effect of labour income taxes on the supply of paid labour for several Western countries over the last two decades.
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