by Dan Mitchell | Aug 26, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I periodically warn that the United States is on a path to become a European-style welfare state. That sounds good to some people since it implies lots of goodies paid for by other people. So I always explain that there’s a downside. The economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Long-time readers know that I periodically pour cold water on the notion that China is an economic superstar. Yes, China did engage in some economic liberalization late last century, and those reforms should be applauded because they...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 1, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
China is not going to surpass the United States as the world’s dominant economy. As I first wrote back in 2010, China is a paper tiger. Yes, there was some pro-market reform last century, which helped reduce mass poverty, but China only took...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
In the world of public finance, Ireland is best known for its 12.5 percent corporate tax rate. That’s a very admirable policy, as will be momentarily discussed, but my favorite Irish policy was the four-year spending freeze in the late 1980s....
by Dan Mitchell | May 24, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
As explained here, here, here, and here, I don’t like Biden’s class-warfare tax policy. I’m especially concerned about his approach to business taxation. He wants to penalize American-based companies with the highest corporate...
