by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
The Financial Times reports that the number of Americans giving up their citizenship to protect their families from America’s onerous worldwide tax system has jumped rapidly. Even relatively high-tax nations such as the United Kingdom are attractive compared to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Investor’s Business Daily has an excellent editorial on fiscal policy, and not just because they quote me. They understand that America’s fiscal problem is spending rather than deficits. They also realize that tax increases are completely misguided since the economy...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
My former colleague at the Heritage Foundation, Brian Riedl, has a column in the Wall Street Journal today which discusses the degree to which President Bush’s policies can be blamed for current deficits. I think Brian is too easy on Bush’s terrible record as a big...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 12, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
I like poking fun at French politicians for being hopeless statists, and I always assumed that French voters shared their collectivist sympathies. But according to new polling data reported by the Financial Times, there may be a Tea Party revolt brewing in France....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 11, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Much of the economic debate in Washington revolves around the silly Keynesian notion that politicians can stimulate an economy by borrowing money from the private sector and using the funds to make government bigger. That didn’t work for Hoover and Roosevelt during...
