by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
New Jersey is a fiscal disaster area. It’s in last place in the Tax Foundation’s index that measures a state’s business tax climate. It’s tied for last place in the Mercatus Center’s ranking of state fiscal conditions. And it ranks in the bottom-10 in measures...
by Dan Mitchell | May 4, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I wrote last July about how greedy politicians in Seattle, Washington, were trying to impose a local income tax. That effort has been stymied since there’s anti-income-tax language in the state constitution (Washington is one of nine states without that punitive...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve been in Prague the past few days for a meeting of the European Resource Bank. I spoke today about a relatively unknown international bureaucracy called the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and I warned that it is going through a process of...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
Politicians routinely assert that they want more economic growth. That’s a laudable sentiment, although I doubt their sincerity for the simple reason that these are the same people who frequently impose policies that discourage productive economic activity. Growth...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
Writing a column every day is a recipe for making an occasional mistake. Sometimes the errors are minor, such as when I put Tucson in New Mexico rather than Arizona. And sometimes they are less trivial, such as when I mischaracterized subsidies for the Postal Service...
