by Dan Mitchell | Apr 29, 2019 | Blogs, Economics
My friends on the left hold two impossible-to-reconcile views about taxation. First, they say taxes don’t really have any effect on incentives to work, save and invest, and that governments can impose high tax rates and punitive double taxation without...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2019 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I shared data a couple of weeks ago showing that Florida is the freest state in America (for both overall freedom and economic freedom) while New York is in last place (in both categories). Well, it seems that freedom has consequences when people can “vote with their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
The most persuasive data, when comparing the United States and Scandinavia, are the numbers showing that Americans of Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian descent produce much more prosperity than those who remained in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2019 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve written many times about people and businesses escaping high-tax states and moving to low-tax states. This tax-driven migration rewards states with good policy and punishes those with bad policy. And now we have some new data. The Wall Street...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2018 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Back in April, I chatted with Stuart Varney about how some states were in deep trouble because they were being squeezed by having to finance huge unfunded liabilities for bureaucrats, yet they were constrained by the fact that taxpayers have the freedom to move when...
