by Dan Mitchell | Nov 11, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I’ve argued that we’ll get better government if we make it smaller. And Mark Steyn humorously observed, “our government is more expensive than any government in history – and we have nothing to show for it.” But can these assertions be quantified? I had an email...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 2, 2014 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation
According to the bean counters at Ernst and Young, the United States has one of the highest capital gains tax rates in the world. But if you don’t trust the numbers from a big accounting firm, then you can peruse a study from the pro-tax Organization for Economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 30, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
Since I criticized Paul Ryan’s Roadmap budget plan yesterday as part of my column against the value-added tax, I now feel obliged to defend the proposal in one important respect. But first, some background. In a recent piece for the American Enterprise Institute,...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 29, 2014 | Blogs
Libertarians are sometimes accused of being unrealistic and impractical because we occasionally talk about unconventional ideas such as competitive currencies and privatized roads. But having a vision of a free society doesn’t mean we’re incapable of...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The International Monetary Fund isn’t my least-favorite international bureaucracy. That special honor belongs to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, largely because of its efforts to undermine tax competition and protect the interests of the...
