by Dan Mitchell | May 8, 2016 | Blogs, Tax Havens, Taxation
I wrote last month about Secretary of State John Kerry being a giant hypocrite because he’s been a critic of so-called tax havens, yet he and his family benefits immensely from investments in various low-tax jurisdictions. But perhaps that’s something that Obama...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2016 | Blogs, Tax Havens, Taxation
What do left-wing firebrand Congressman Alan Grayson, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, Obama’s top trade negotiator Michael Froman, liberal financier Donald Sussman, and big-money Democratic donor Tom Steyer all have in common? The answer is that they all engage in tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
The good thing about being nonpartisan is that I can freely criticize (or even praise) policy makers without giving any thought to whether they have an R or D after their name. That doesn’t mean Republicans and Democrats are the same, at least with regards to...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 30, 2015 | Blogs, Economics
Socialism is an economic failure. International socialism didn’t work in the Soviet Union. National socialism didn’t work in Germany. And democratic socialism, while avoiding the horrors of its communist and Nazi cousins, also has been a flop. Socialism fails because...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 15, 2015 | Blogs, Education
Our friends who believe in big government have this funny habit of self-exempting themselves from the bad policies that they impose on the rest of the population. Statists are very opposed to so-called tax havens, for instance, because they don’t want there to be any...