There are good reasons why IMF predictions should be ignored.

They actually endorsed higher taxes on capital.

There’s been a decline in liberty.

The IMF supplies a maliciously misleading tweet.

The bureaucrats at the IMF apparently want readers to believe that higher taxes and more spending are a route to prosperity.

Politicians in high-tax nations have always resented tax competition and they have been working through left-leaning international bureaucracies to push for various forms of tax harmonization.

Even the IMF admits this.

There’s never been a nation that became rich by adopting big government.

How the island got into trouble.

IMF policy provides a glaring example.