by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2023 | Blogs, Europe
If globalism means free trade and peaceful interaction among peoples, sign me up. I’m a big supporter. But if globalism means international bureaucracies working to increase the power of governments (i.e., dirigiste forms of global governance), then I’m...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 7, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
Way back in 2007, I narrated this video to explain why tax competition is very desirable because politicians are likely to overtax and overspend (“Goldfish Government“) if they think taxpayers have no ability to escape. The good news is that tax competition has been...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 28, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
Motivated in part by a sensible desire for free trade, six nations from Western Europe signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957, thus creating the European Economic Community (EEC). Sort of a European version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (now known as USMCA)....
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 10, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
A few years ago, I put together a basic primer on corporate taxation. Everything I wrote is still relevant, but I didn’t include much discussion about international topics. In part, that’s because those issues are even more wonky and more boring than domestic issues...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2019 | Economics, Trade
I’m for free trade because I want more jobs and more prosperity for the United States. Indeed, I’ve argued we should copy that incredible economic success of Hong Kong and Singapore by unilaterally eliminating all trade barriers. But some people complain this is akin...
