by Dan Mitchell | Oct 17, 2012 | Blogs, Europe
I’m not talking about secession in the United States, where the issue is linked to the ugliness of slavery (though at least Walter Williams can write about the issue without the risk of being accused of closet racism). But what about Europe? I have a hard time...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 10, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I periodically mock the crazy statists of California. The state is almost surely doomed to suffer a Greek-style fiscal chaos. The only unknown is whether Illinois will beat the Golden State into default. The politicians in Sacramento impose very high taxes to fund a...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2012 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Since I’m probably the foremost defender of tax havens in the United States, I tend to get a lot of press inquiries whenever something happens that brings attention to these low-tax jurisdictions. In recent months, almost all of the media calls have been because...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
During the dark ages, nations like China were relatively advanced while Europeans were living in squalid huts. But that began to change several hundred years ago. Europe experienced the enlightenment and industrial revolution while the empires of Asia languished. What...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
If we want to avoid the kind of Greek-style fiscal collapse implied by this BIS and OECD data, we need some external force to limit the tendency of politicians to over-tax and over-spend. That’s why I’m a big advocate of tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and...
