by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2011 | Blogs
Happy Tax Day! Or, if you’re like me, happy tax extension filing day. In the past couple of days, I’ve posted about the benefits of a better tax system and the unfairness of the current system. Those were compelling posts, at least I hope. But now let’s tie these...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Flat Tax, Taxation
Since it is tax-filing season and we all want to honor our wonderful tax system, let’s go into the archives and show this video from last year about the onerous compliance costs of the internal revenue code. Narrated by Hiwa Alaghebandian of the American Enterprise...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society
My previous post looked at the federal government’s troubling decision to investigate, persecute, prosecute, and ultimately imprison a random home-loan borrower named Charlie Engle for the crime of mortgage fraud. Citing a column on the legal fallout from the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
One of my many frustrations of working in Washington is dealing with perpetual-motion-machine assertions. The classic example is Keynesian economics, which is based on the notion that you magically create additional economic activity by having the government spend...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 11, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
The IRS certainly deserves lots of condemnation for its rogue actions, including a $200 fine for a taxpayer who supposedly underpaid his tax bill by 4 pennies. But the tax-collection agency also should be criticized for blundering incompetence. In the past, I’ve...
