by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2010 | Blogs, Europe, Taxation
The overall fiscal burden in the United States may be lower than it is in Europe, but there are some features of the internal revenue code that are far worse than what can be found on the other side of the Atlantic. America has a “worldwide” tax system,...
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 7, 2010 | Blogs, Europe
I don’t know what’s more laughable, the fact that some EU bureaucracy is creating an 80-minute poem (with dancing, no less), or that the “low-grade bank clerk” who masquerades as the European Council President is going to publish a a book of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Greece is in trouble for a combination of reasons. Government spending is far too excessive, diverting resources from more efficient uses. The bureaucracy is too large and paid too much, resulting in a misallocation of labor. And tax rates are too high, further...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 30, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Or maybe this belongs in the “great moments in international bureaucracy” series since it relates to European Union law. Regardless, we have another sign of Europe’s fiscal nightmare. A court in the United Kingdom has given a big green light to...
