by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2024 | Blogs, States
In 2022, I wrote a two-part series (here and here) about fiscal decay in Illinois. I’m motivated to add Part III today because of this chart from Chris Edwards, which shows how many upper-income taxpayers are moving into a state compared to how...
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 | Feb 21, 2024 | Blogs
Almost exactly six years ago, I shared a column with this video of a member of the European Parliament explaining the principle of mutual recognition. But that column was mostly about the benefits of jurisdictional competition and I only mentioned mutual recognition...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
As I did with the 2022 issue, the 2021 issue, the 2020 issue, etc, let’s analyze the results of the new International Tax Competitiveness Index from the Tax Foundation. In part, the results are boring because – once again...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Yesterday’s column pointed out why supporters of a global corporate tax cartel are misguided. Today, I’m going to admit that I made a mistake. Not yesterday, but two years earlier. Back in 2021, I put together a list of winners and losers from the proposed...
