by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2010 | Blogs, Europe, Taxation, VAT
My life is now devoted to saving America from the European-style national sales tax known as the value-added tax. Writing in the New York Post, I explain that the impact of a VAT in Europe is bigger government, not smaller deficits: The real-world evidence shows that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 11, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Because the looters and moochers in Washington have made a mockery of the Constitution, Professor Williams wonders whether the only solution is for advocates of limited government to split off and create an America based on traditional principles of self reliance and...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, my Cato Institute colleague Alan Reynolds offers a simple economics lesson about pitfalls of class-warfare tax policy: …the evidence is clear that when marginal tax rates go up, the amount of reported incomes goes down....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
Tom Palmer of the Altas Network has a very concise – yet quite devastating – video exposing the Keynesian fallacy that the destruction of wealth by calamaties such as earthquakes or terrorism is good for economic growth. Tom cites the work of Bastiat, who...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 2, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Tax Competition, Tax Havens
I think it is very nice when left-wing groups publish reports that make the case for pro-market policies A recent example is a report from the Center for International Policy, which wants to demonize so-called tax havens, but their report shows that the United States...
