by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I was interviewed a couple of days ago about rival tax plans by various Democratic presidential candidates. It’s the “Class Warfare Olympics,” and even Joe Biden is thinking about going hard left with a tax on financial transactions. It’s not just Joe Biden’s crazy...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Trade
According to the most-recent edition of Economic Freedom of the World, Brazil is only ranked #120, which is lower than nations such as Greece, Haiti, and China. Brazil gets a horrible grade on regulation, and it’s also in the bottom half of all nations when looking...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 22, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
The International Monetary Fund is infamous for its advocacy of higher taxes. Heck, it’s not merely advocacy. The international bureaucracy uses bailout money as a tool to coerce politicians into approving higher tax burdens. This is so reprehensible that I’ve...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 18, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I’ve written many times about the perverse and destructive economic impact of class-warfare taxation. Today, we’re doing to look at the sloppy math associated with the fiscal plans of Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and the rest of the soak-the-rich...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Free Market
The folks at the Fraser Institute in Canada have just released a new version of Economic Freedom of the World. As has been the case for many years, Hong Kong is #1 and Singapore is #2, followed by New Zealand (#3) and Switzerland (#4). Interestingly, the United States...
