by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
American taxpayers are not the only ones getting ripped off by lavish pay and perks for bureaucrats. The Daily Mail reports on a new study about public sector pay in the United Kingdom: Public sector employees work nine years less than their private sector...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 22, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Taxation
I don’t often agree with the statist president of the European Commission, but Mr. Barroso may be right when he warns that some nations are at risk of descending back into dictatorship. But while he may be correct in his diagnosis, his proposed solution is more...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2010 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Economic Growth, Europe, Tax Competition, Taxation
The former communists running Russia apparently understand tax policy better than the buffoons in charge of U.S. tax policy. Not only does Russia have a 13 percent flat tax, but the government has just announced it will eliminate the capital gains tax (which...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
President Andrew Jackson is believed to have said that “One man with courage makes a majority.” Well, let’s hope this statement also applies to women. The incoming Prime Minister of Slovakia, Ms. Iveta Radicova, has the power to stop the corrupt and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2010 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs
I hope the title to this blog post is completely wrong, but the news out of Europe is very grim. Politicians have been over-spending and going deeper and deeper into debt. This negatively affects the private sector in the usual ways (higher taxes, unproductive...
