by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I realize it’s a bold assertion, but the $100 million that American taxpayers send to Paris every year to subsidize the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is – on a per-dollar basis – the most destructively wasteful part in the federal budget. This...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jul 13, 2012 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
CF&P’s Brian Garst, in an editorial for the Daily Caller yesterday, observes a disturbing trend in the rhetoric of this year’s Presidential campaign. An unholy alliance of political opportunists and long-time opponents of tax competition has formed and...
by Brian Garst | Jul 12, 2012 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared in The Daily Caller on July 12, 2012. In an effort to score political points, Democrats are pounding Mitt Romney over his use of offshore bank accounts. Over the weekend, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin remarked, “You either get a Swiss bank...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 24, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This Paris-based international bureaucracy doesn’t get as much attention as the United Nations or International Monetary Fund, but it’s probably does more damage to freedom and prosperity...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 18, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), through its Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, claims that it is working to “ensure that all jurisdictions adhere to the same high standard of international...
