by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
For more than 30 years, I’ve been trying to educate my leftist friends about supply-side economics and the Laffer Curve. Why is it so hard for them to recognize, I endlessly wonder, that when you tax something, you get less of it? And why don’t they realize that when...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
What best symbolizes France’s statist political culture? Is it a bloated public sector that consumes more than half of the economy’s output? Is it a tax system that is so onerous that households sometimes pay more than 100 percent of their income to the government? Is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 28, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Supply Side, Taxation
Yesterday was “Australia Day,” which I gather for Aussies is sort of like the 4th of July for Americans. To belatedly celebrate for our friends Down Under, I suppose we could sing Waltzing Matilda. But since I’m a policy wonk with a special fondness for the nation,...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 20, 2016 | Blogs, Economics, Supply Side, Tax Competition, Taxation
There are several features of President-Elect Trump’s tax plan that are worthy of praise, including death tax repeal, expensing, and lower marginal tax rates on households. But the policy that probably deserves the most attention is Trump’s embrace of a 15 percent tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Based on the title of this column, you may think I’m going to write about oppressive IRS behavior or punitive tax policy. Those are good guesses, but today’s “brutal tax beating” is about what happens when a clueless leftist writes a sophomoric column about tax policy...
