by Dan Mitchell | Apr 10, 2022 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m a big fan of federalism. It gives people more freedom to choose the type of economic policy they prefer.A system of federalism promotes jurisdictional competition and policy innovation.Decentralization generates more evidence in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 19, 2022 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m a big fan of tax competition. Why? Because if they’re not constrained by the fear that taxpayers can escape, I worry that short-sighted politicians (i.e., “stationary bandits“), will over-tax and over-spend. And that can lead to Greek-like fiscal...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2022 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
In my recent column listing the “Best and Worst News of 2021,” I included Joe Biden’s global tax cartel as one of the awful things that happened in the past 12 months. It’s bad news for workers, consumers, and shareholders that...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Remember the supposedly breathtaking revelations from the “Panama Papers” back in 2016? We were told those stolen documents were an indictment against so-called tax havens, but the real lesson was that politicians and other government insiders are very prone...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
I critiqued Biden’s proposal for a global corporate tax cartel as part of a recent discussion with South Africa’s Free Market Foundation. Here’s the segment where I explain why it would be bad for developing nations. At the risk of stating the...
