by Dan Mitchell | Apr 11, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of the IRS, but usually I blame politicians for America’s corrupt, unfair, and punitive tax system. Sometimes, though, the tax bureaucrats run amok and earn their reputation as America’s most despised bureaucracy. Here’s an example. Earlier this...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2011 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Economics
Okay, the title’s an exaggeration, but this chart is rather revealing. It shows how per-capita GDP has changed between 1980 and 2008 in Chile, Argentina, and Venezuela. As you can see, Chile used to be the poorest of the three countries and now it is comparatively...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 9, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
New Jersey gets abused by comedians as being some sort of dump, but there are some scenic parts of the state. So it actually can be a nice place to live. That being said, it’s not a good place to die. Here’s a chart from the American Family Business Foundation that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Johnny Munkhammar is a member of the Swedish Parliament and a committed supporter of economic liberalization. He has a column in the Wall Street Journal Europe that does a great job of explaining how Sweden became rich when it was a small-government, pro-market...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
There’s a supposed expose in the U.K.-based Daily Mail about how major British companies have subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions. It even includes this table with the ostensibly shocking numbers. This is quite akin to the propaganda issued by American statists....
