by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
As I explained in this 2010 video, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an international bureaucracy based in Paris that advocates for higher taxes and bigger government. I then wrote in 2011 that eliminating subsidies for this...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
My primary criticism of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is that the Paris-based international bureaucracy is trying to become some sort of global tax enforcer for left-wing policy. Indeed, I founded CF&P in 2000 precisely because the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 9, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Fifteen years ago, I explained that the bailout of Greece (by the IMF-EC-ECB “troika“) was a mistake because the net effect was a much bigger tax burden and no reduction in the spending burden. And I did the same thing five years ago and found the same...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 31, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris proposed to give taxpayer funds to pro-tax, pro-spending groups like the Center for American Progress or the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Republicans presumably would argue against handouts. After all, why...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy that originally was created to engage in benign activities such as gathering statistics about member nations. It still does some of that, but it also has...
