No More Subsidies to the OECD from American Taxpayers

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...

We’re Sending Tax Dollars to a Paris-Based International Bureaucracy So It Can Work with “Occupy” Nutjobs to Push for Higher Taxes

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...

The OECD’s Double Standard

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...

The Great Tax Haven Debate, Part II

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 4, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation

Back in April, responding to an article written by Ann Hollingshead for the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development, I wrote a long post defending so-called tax havens. I went through the trouble of a point-by-point response because her article was...

To Boost Obama’s Redistribution Agenda, OECD Pushes Crazy Assertion that Poverty Is Higher in the U.S. than in Greece, Hungary, Portugal, and Turkey

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2012 | Blogs, Economics

Supporters of individual liberty and national sovereignty have been skeptical of the United Nations, and with good reason. With the support of statists such as George Soros, the U.N. pushes for crazy ideas such as global taxation and global currency. But there’s...