by Dan Mitchell | Aug 6, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Remember John Kerry, the former Secretary of State and Massachusetts Senator, the guy who routinely advocated higher taxes but then made sure to protect his own wealth? Not only did he protect much of his fortune in so-called tax havens, he even went through...
by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Government Spending
A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed the four major candidates running in the French presidential election and expressed general pessimism. This Sunday, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will face each other in the runoff election. That’s a rather depressing choice....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
The last time there was a presidential election in France, I like to think my endorsement made a difference in the outcome. Now that another election is about to take place, with a first round this Sunday and a runoff election between the top-2 candidates two weeks...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
What best symbolizes France’s statist political culture? Is it a bloated public sector that consumes more than half of the economy’s output? Is it a tax system that is so onerous that households sometimes pay more than 100 percent of their income to the government? Is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 13, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
Two months ago, I decided that the new President of the Philippines was the winner of the 2016 award for politician of the year. It takes a remarkable amount of chutzpah, after all, to freely admit to having mistresses (yes, more than one). But the icing on the cake...
