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...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I first opined about Pope Francis in 2013, when I told a BBC audience why the Pope was wrong on economic policy. The following year, I expanded on that point, explaining that statist policies are bad for the poor. And I revisited the issue again last year. I’m not the...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
A few years ago, I put together a basic primer on corporate taxation. Everything I wrote is still relevant, but I didn’t include much discussion about international topics. In part, that’s because those issues are even more wonky and more boring than domestic issues...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 6, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
When I wrote about the wealth tax early this year, I made three simple points. A war on wealth is a war on capital (increased double taxation is needed since rich people have a lot of saving and investment). A war on capital is a war on productivity (every economic...
