by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a fan of the International Monetary Fund, in part because the international bureaucracy is infamous for pressuring nations to impose higher taxes. The bureaucrats at the IMF have even claimed that higher taxes somehow will...
by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
Trump had some economically illiterate tweets about trade during his presidency, including the infamous one about being “Tariff Man.” I think Joe Biden must be feeling envious that Trump got so much attention, so he has issued a tweet showing that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Thomas Piketty is a big proponent of class-warfare tax policy because he views inequality as a horrible outcome. But a soak-the-rich policy agenda, echoed by many other academics such as Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman,...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
I enjoy defending rich people. In part, that’s because I appreciate how rich entrepreneurs make life better for me and everybody else. But I also defend rich people because of my deep disdain for the policy agenda of empty-suit...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
I wrote back in 2012 that California voters opted for “slow-motion economic suicide” by voting to raise the state’s top income tax rate to 13.3 percent. Sure enough, having the nation’s highest state income tax rate has been bad news. More and...
