by Dan Mitchell | Oct 14, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a fan of the International Monetary Fund. Like many other international bureaucracies, it pushes a statist agenda. The IMF’s support for bad policy gets me so agitated that I’ve sometimes referred to it as the “dumpster fire” or “Dr. Kevorkian” of the global...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 11, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
In my ideal world, we’re having a substantive debate about corporate tax policy, double taxation, marginal tax rates, and fundamental tax reform (plus spending restraint so big tax cuts are feasible). Sadly, we don’t live in my ideal world (other than my Georgia...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I shared some academic research last year showing that top-level inventors are very sensitive to tax policy and that they migrate from high-tax nations to low-tax jurisdictions. Now we have some new scholarly research showing that they also migrate from high-tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 11, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Every so often, I mock the New York Times for biased or sloppy analysis. Claiming Medicaid cuts in a piece that shows rising outlays for the program. Asserting that government schools are “starved of funding” when taxpayer subsidies actually have skyrocketed. Claiming...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 6, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Remember John Kerry, the former Secretary of State and Massachusetts Senator, the guy who routinely advocated higher taxes but then made sure to protect his own wealth? Not only did he protect much of his fortune in so-called tax havens, he even went through...
