by CF&P | Jul 24, 2015 | News, Prosperity Updates
BEPS News… BEPS Hill Event Widely Attended Last week CF&P’s Brian Garst joined Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute, David Burton of the Heritage Foundation, and Gavin Ekins of the Tax Foundation in a hill briefing exploring the many problems with the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m very fond of Estonia, and not just because of the scenery. Back in the early 1990s, it was the first post-communist nation to adopt a flat tax. More recently, it showed that genuine spending cuts were the right way to respond to the 2008 crisis (notwithstanding...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2015 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
Citing the work of David Burton and Richard Rahn, I warned last July about the dangerous consequences of allowing governments to create a global tax cartel based on the collection and sharing of sensitive personal financial information. I was focused on the danger to...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 23, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I don’t know whether it’s because I’m a libertarian or because I’m an economist, but I get very frustrated by the issue of corporate inversions. It galls me to hear demagogic politicians like Obama make absurd statements about “unpatriotic” corporations that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 20, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
I wrote last year about the remarkable acknowledgement by Bono that free markets were the best way to lift people out of poverty. The leader of the U2 band and long-time anti-poverty activist specifically stated that, “capitalism has been the most effective ideology...
