by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
In a violation of the 8th Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, my brutal overseers at the Cato Institute required me to watch Wednesday’s debate (you can see what Cato scholars said by clicking here). But I will admit that it was good to...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I was a bit surprised couple of years ago to read that an American company re-located to Canada to benefit from better tax policy. But I wasn’t totally shocked by the news because Canada has been lowering tax rates, reducing the burden of government spending, and...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2012 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
I appeared on CNBC a couple of days ago to discuss a new report which claims that some big U.S. companies “only” paid 9 percent of their income to the government. While I’m a bit skeptical of the numbers (did it include the taxes paid to foreign governments, for...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Mitt Romney is being criticized for supporting “territorial taxation,” which is the common-sense notion that each nation gets to control the taxation of economic activity inside its borders. While promoting his own class-warfare agenda, President Obama recently...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Laffer Curve, Taxation
I’m not quite ready to trade places with Canada, but it may just be a matter of time. Like Germany and Sweden, they seem to be slowly but surely trying to move in the right direction. I’ve already commented on good Canadian fiscal policy (including a much-needed...
