by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Just like last year, April 15 isn’t the official deadline this year for filing your annual tax return. But we’re still going to “celebrate” with some memes about the income tax and the IRS. We’ll start with something that has always bothered me, which...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
There are some fortunate people (in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Monaco, Vanuatu, Antigua and Barbuda, and a few other places) who don’t have to pay income taxes. The United States used to be in that lucky club. The income tax did not become a permanent blight upon...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I recently appeared on CNBC to talk about everyone’s favorite government agency, those warm and cuddly folks at the IRS. Our tax system is a dysfunctional mess, but you’ll notice that I mostly blamed politicians. After all, they are the ones who have unceasingly made...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
On several occasions, I’ve shared horror stories of government brutality and asserted that all decent people should be libertarians. If you still are not convinced, today we’re going to look at seven stories about so-called civil asset forfeiture, which is a sanitized...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
For the past 30 years, I’ve been criticizing both the tax code and the IRS. Which raises an interesting chicken-or-egg question about who should be blamed for our nightmarish tax system. Should we blame IRS bureaucrats, who have a dismal track record of abusing...
