by Dan Mitchell | Aug 27, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Since I’ve been in Washington for nearly three decades, I’m used to foolish demagoguery. But the left’s reaction to corporate inversions takes political rhetoric to a new level of dishonesty. Every study that looks at business taxation reaches the same conclusion,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Last month, I put together a list of six jaw-dropping examples of left-wing hypocrisy, one of which featured Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. He made the list for having the chutzpah to criticize corporate inversions on the basis of supposed economic patriotism, even...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 30, 2014 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
It’s a bad idea when governments demand information on your bank accounts and investments so they can impose economically destructive double taxation. It’s a worse idea when they also demand the right to tax economic activity in other jurisdictions (otherwise known as...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
Last month, I nailed Bill and Hillary Clinton for their gross hypocrisy on the death tax. But that’s just one example. Today, we’re going to experience a festival of statist hypocrisy. We have six different nauseating examples of political elitists wanting...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 6, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve argued that subsidies for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are the most destructively wasteful outlays in the federal budget. At least on a per-dollar-spent basis. But what if we did the same exercise on the tax side of...
