by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
The famous French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand supposedly said that a weakness of the Bourbon monarchs was that they learned nothing and forgot nothing. If so, the genetic descendants of the Bourbons are now in charge of Europe. But before explaining why,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
I’ve previously written about the bizarre attack that the European Commission has launched against Ireland’s tax policy. The bureaucrats in Brussels have concocted a strange theory that Ireland’s pro-growth tax system provides “state aid” to companies like Apple (in...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Why did a for-profit college pay former President Bill Clinton the staggering sum of $16.5 million to serve as an “honorary chancellor for Laureate International Universities”? Was it because he had some special insight or expertise on how to improve education? Why...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2016 | Blogs, Europe, Tax Competition, Taxation
European bureaucrats have made a new claim that countries are guilty of providing subsidies if they have low taxes for companies. I’m not joking. This is basically what’s behind the big tax fight between Apple, Ireland, and the European Commission. Here’s what I said...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 26, 2016 | Blogs, Europe, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
I have a love-hate relationship with corporations. On the plus side, I admire corporations that efficiently and effectively compete by producing valuable goods and services for consumers, and I aggressively defend those firms from politicians who want to impose...
