by CF&P | Jul 10, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
FATCA Updates An Act of Economic Strangulation Richard Rahn on FATCA: “This one regulation by itself may well cause another drop in GDP during the third quarter of this year, owing to both the uncertainty it engenders and the fact that it will drive out...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
The internal revenue service has allowed itself to become a tool of the White House. To be more specific, bureaucrats at the tax-collection agency sought to undermine a free and fair political process by stifling political speech. And now the IRS is lying about its...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 27, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
When I wrote recently that the IRS was corrupt, venal, and despicable, I didn’t realize that I was bending over backwards to be overly nice. Every new revelation in the scandal shows that the agency is beyond salvage. Writing for Real Clear Markets, Diana...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
Some statements are so lame that they now serve only as punch lines. Nobody, after all, would ever claim to a teacher that “the dog ate my homework.” Moreover, surely few if any people ever actually assert to bill collectors that “the check is in the mail.” And I have...
by Dan Mitchell | May 16, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs
It’s not as sophisticated as Professor Bryan Caplan’s Purity Quiz and it doesn’t have the simple elegance of the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, but at least you don’t need to answer any questions to see where you stand in this Venn Diagram that my intern shared with...
