by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2025 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve written countless times about how taxpayers “vote with their feet” against high taxes and big government. Most recently, I wrote about rich people escaping Norway because that country’s left-wing government dramatically boosted its...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 12, 2024 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m a big fan of tax competition. I cheer when jobs, investment, and people (or even booze) move from high-tax jurisdictions to low-tax jurisdictions. This increases the rewards for good policy and also increases the punishment for bad policy. Given my...
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...
