Notwithstanding the New Left-Wing Rhetorical Strategy, Higher Taxes and Bigger Government Is Not a Recipe for Growth and Development

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation

I must be perversely masochistic because I have the strange habit of reading reports issued by international bureaucracies such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. But one tiny...

The European Commission’s Attack on Apple and Ireland Is Really an Attack on Tax Competition

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation

I’ve previously written about the bizarre attack that the European Commission has launched against Ireland’s tax policy. The bureaucrats in Brussels have concocted a strange theory that Ireland’s pro-growth tax system provides “state aid” to companies like Apple (in...

A Cartoon that Tells You Everything You Need to Know about International Bureaucracies

by Dan Mitchell | Aug 10, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation

Okay, I’ll admit the title of this post is an exaggeration. There are lots of things you should know – most bad, though some good – about international bureaucracies. That being said, regular readers know that I get very frustrated with the statist policy agendas of...

Our Fight for Taxpayers Draws Fire

by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 22, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary

This article originally appeared on The Hill on June 21, 2016. The Washington Post recently featured a 4,000-word write-up of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P), a think-tank that I co-founded in 2000 and have since served as President. The report...

Perverse: The Obama Administration Gives Money to the OECD from American Taxpayers so the OECD Can Propose More Burdens on American Taxpayers

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs

There are many reasons why I don’t like the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international bureaucracy that ostensibly represents the developed world but in reality is controlled by European welfare states. The main problem is that...