by CF&P | Aug 8, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Freeing Markets Ending a Destructive Obamacare Tax It’s just one of many bad taxes introduced by Obamacare, but with 4 years worth of evidence demonstrating its destructiveness, CF&P President Andrew Quinlan says it’s time for the tanning tax to go....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 29, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
One of the worst things about working in Washington is that it’s so easy to get frustrated about the fact-free nature of political debates. For instance, there’s now a big controversy about companies “re-domiciling” or “inverting” from the United States to lower-tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 16, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Last August, I shared a list of companies that “re-domiciled” in other nations so they could escape America’s punitive “worldwide” tax system. This past April, I augmented that list with some commentary about whether Walgreen’s might become a Swiss-based company. And...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 11, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Europe, Laffer Curve, Tax Competition, Taxation
When the new Tory-led government came to power in the United Kingdom, I was rather unimpressed. David Cameron positioned himself as a British version of George W. Bush, full of “compassionate conservative” ideas to expand the burden of government. But even worse than...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Laffer Curve, Taxation
The title of this post sounds like the beginning of a strange joke, but it’s actually because we’re covering three issues today. Our first topic is corporate taxation. More specifically, we’re looking at a nation that seems to be learning that it’s foolish the have a...
