by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
As I explained in this 2010 video, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an international bureaucracy based in Paris that advocates for higher taxes and bigger government. I then wrote in 2011 that eliminating subsidies for this...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 31, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris proposed to give taxpayer funds to pro-tax, pro-spending groups like the Center for American Progress or the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Republicans presumably would argue against handouts. After all, why...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
Five years ago, I wrote that globalization is good, but that global governance is bad. That’s because globalization (as I define it) means free trade and other forms of cross-border economic activity. All of which is very consistent...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy that originally was created to engage in benign activities such as gathering statistics about member nations. It still does some of that, but it also has...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
By providing bailouts to profligate governments, the International Monetary Fund creates “moral hazard” and thus does considerable damage to the global economy. To make matters worse, the IMF pressures those profligate...
