by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
Last September, I wrote that America’s business tax system is a nightmare that simultaneously undermines the competitiveness of American companies while also causing lots of irritation in other nations. Both of those bad things happen because politicians in Washington...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
If nothing else, our leftist friends deserve credit for chutzpah. All around the world, we see concrete evidence that big government leads to stagnation and decay, yet statists repeatedly argue that further expansions in taxes and spending will be good for growth....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
The most compelling graph I’ve ever seen was put together by Andrew Coulson at the Cato Institute. It shows that there’s been a huge increase in the size and cost of the government education bureaucracy in recent decades, but that student performance has been...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Welfare and Entitlements
In my younger years, I oftentimes would have arguments with statists who wanted me to believe that countries in Northern Europe like Sweden “proved” that generous welfare states were compatible with economic prosperity. That doesn’t happen as often today because the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
The United States is burdened with some very bad policies that hinder growth and undermine competitiveness. But sometimes you can win a race if your rivals have policies that are even more self-destructive. And that’s a good description of why the U.S. economy is...
