by Dan Mitchell | May 22, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I’ve shared all sorts of online quizzes that supposedly can detect things such as whether you’re a pure libertarian. Or even whether you’re a communist. Today, courtesy of the folks at the Committee for a Responsible Budget, you can agree or...
by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Tax increases are bad fiscal policy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are politically unpopular. Indeed, many voices in the establishment press are citing favorable polling data in hopes of creating an aura on inevitably...
by Dan Mitchell | May 12, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Back in 2015, I joked that my life would be simpler if I had an “automatic fill-in-the-blanks system” for columns dealing with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Here’s what I proposed. We can use this shortcut today because the OECD has...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2021 | Taxation
When I ask my left-leaning friends what they think about the flight of investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners from high-tax states, I tend to get three responses. It isn’t actually happening (these are my friends who apparently don’t know how to read).It’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 23, 2021 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation
Because of the negative impact on competitiveness, productivity, and worker compensation, it’s a very bad idea to impose double taxation of saving and investment. Which is why there should be no tax on capital gains, and a few nations...
