Tag Archives : Canada
Statist Arguments Are Especially Weak When Using Apples-to-Apples Comparisons
Not all comparisons are created equal.
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Trudeau-nomics: Squandering Canada’s Fiscal Legacy, Risking Canada’s Economic Progress
Canada prepares for a Keynesian spending binge.
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More Regulation: Bad for Jobs and Entrepreneurship, Good for Corporate Cronies
Bad signs for Obama’s last year.
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The Canadian Version of Great Moments in Human Rights
Politicians and bureaucrats are prone to nonsense everywhere.
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The Alberta Example: Spending Caps Are the Way to Prevent Unsustainable Fiscal Binges During Growth Years
We need a spending cap as constraint on the destructive behavior of politicians.
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Prosperity Update October 28, 2014
The unlikelihood of FATCA reciprocity, a video explanation of the Rahn curve, and what Canada can teach us about improving tax policy.
read more...Canada Shows How to Eliminate the Tax Bias against Saving
What we can learned from our northern neighbors.
read more...The Laffer Curve and Limits to Class Warfare Tax Policy
I’m a big advocate of the Laffer Curve. Simply stated, it’s absurdly inaccurate to think that taxpayers and the economy are insensitive to changes in tax policy. Yet bureaucracies such as the Joint Committee on Taxation basically assume that the economy will be unaffected and that tax revenues will jump dramatically if tax rates are boosted by, say, […]
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A Lower Corporate Rate Is a Practical And Good Response to Inversions
It boggles the mind to think that the United States now has the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world. But it’s even more amazing that America arguably has the most punitive corporate tax rate in the entire world. Here’s some of what I wrote on the topic for today’s U.K.-based Telegraph. …the United States has the highest corporate tax rate […]
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Paul Martin: The Bill Clinton of Canada, Only Much Better
Imagine how weird it would be if the Cato Institute and Americans for Tax Reform praised Barack Obama for fiscal responsibility. And think how inconceivable it would be for the Heritage Foundation and the National Taxpayers Union to applaud Tim “Turbotax” Geithner for economic stewardship. But the Canadian version of that happened while I was […]
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