by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2013 | Blogs, Health Care
I had some fun back in April when I noted that politicians and staff on Capitol Hill were getting very agitated about having to be part of Obamacare. Well, it seems that the way the law applies to them is so costly that many of them are thinking about calling it...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe
What’s the most noxious example of hypocrisy from the political class? Is it left wingers from Obama’s cabinet utilizing tax havens while supporting higher taxes for the rest of us peasants? Or how about politicians who voted for Obamacare and are now trying to exempt...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Havens, Taxation
Earlier this year, I had some fun when it was revealed that the President’s new Treasury Secretary had a lot of money in the Cayman Islands. After all, leftists want us to believe tax havens are rogue regimes that should be eliminated. Some of them even want military...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Every so often, you get a “teaching moment” in Washington, and we now have an excellent opportunity to educate lawmakers about the “offshore” world because President Obama’s nominee to be Treasury Secretary has been caught with his hand in the tax haven cookie jar....
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’m a huge fan of so-called tax havens. I’ve been working for more than 10 years to protect and promote the values of tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy. The bureaucrats at the OECD even threatened to have me tossed in a Mexican jail because I...
