by Dan Mitchell | Jul 20, 2016 | Blogs, Taxation
What’s the best measure of the tax burden on the U.S. economy? Is it the amount of money that we’re forced to surrender to the knaves in Washington (i.e., the difference between our pre-tax income and post-tax consumption)? Or is it the loss of economic output caused...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2016 | Blogs, Competition
Programs about the improbable success of Chile and Estonia already have aired on nationwide TV, and those were joined last weekend by a show about the “sensible nation” of Switzerland. Here’s the 28-minute program. When I first watched the program, I was slightly...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 19, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Communism is an evil system. Freedom is squashed and people are merely cogs in a system where government exercises total control over the economy and destroys the lives of ordinary people. It also erodes the social capital of a people, telling them that individual...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2016 | Blogs, Economics
At the risk of oversimplifying, libertarians want to minimize the level of government coercion is society. That’s why we favor both economic liberty and personal liberty.Simply stated, you should have the right to control your own life and make your own decisions so...
by Dan Mitchell | May 7, 2016 | Blogs, Europe, Tax Competition, Taxation
I wrote yesterday about the Obama Administration’s head-in-the-sand approach regarding the anti-competitive nature of America’s corporate tax system (though maybe fiddling while Rome burns is a better metaphor). Fortunately, some nations have more sensible policy...
