by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
Time for the final segment of my five-part series for 2023 on blue-to-red tax migration (previous versions here, here, here, and here). We’ll start with this table showing what has happened in America’s 10-largest states. You should notice a...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
State-to-state migration is an underappreciated issue, for both economic and political reasons. And I’ve explained that taxes play a huge role. In Part I of this series, we looked at how people – and taxable income – are moving from high-tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Immigration, Society
Back in early 2009, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released this video to explain the universal recipe for growth and prosperity. The core message, if you want to skip the six-minute video, is that nations will become richer if they have a good mix of these...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I am not bullish about China’s economy. Even 10 or more years ago, when many people thought China was going to be the economic superpower of the 21st century, I poured cold water on those predictions. Simply stated, China suffers from too...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
Two of the worst states for tax policy are California and New York. They have punitive income tax rates, high sales taxes, and myriad other ways of diverting money from the productive sector of the economy to finance bloated...
