by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation, VAT
I wrote yesterday about Japan’s experience with the value-added tax, mostly to criticize the International Monetary Fund. The statist bureaucrats at the IMF are urging a big increase in Japan’s VAT even though the last increase was only imposed two months ago (in a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 23, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Free markets and limited government are a tried-and-true recipe for growth and prosperity. Indeed, it’s the only way for a poor nation to become a rich nation. Those are the policies that helpd North America and Western Europe become rich in the 1800s and it’s how...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Candidates such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders supposedly are competing for hard-left voters, while candidates such as Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg are going after moderate voters. But a review of Buttigieg’s fiscal policy suggests he may belong in the first...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 2, 2019 | Big Government, Government Spending, Health Care, Taxation
I’ve always considered Senator Bernie Sanders to be the most clueless and misguided of all presidential candidates. But I also think “Crazy Bernie” is actually sincere. He really believes in socialism. Elizabeth Warren, by contrast, seems more calculating. Her...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 27, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
In a column last week, I noted that Connecticut ranked near the bottom for state tax policy. And if there was a contest for which state has gone downhill at the fastest pace, the Nutmeg State would likely prevail. Less than 30 years ago, the state was reasonably...
