Acting as the Typhoid Mary of the Global Economy, the OECD Urges Higher Taxes in Latin America

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 7, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics

Is it April Fool’s Day? Has somebody in Paris hacked the website at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development? Have we been transported to a parallel dimension where up is down and black is white? Please forgive all these questions. I’m trying to...

New CF&P Libertas Paper Outlines OECD Use of American Taxpayer Dollars for Big Gov’t, Class-Warfare Agenda

by CF&P | Feb 7, 2012 | News, Press Releases

Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Tuesday, February 7, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P Libertas Paper Outlines OECD Use of American Taxpayer Dollars for Big Gov’t, Class-Warfare Agenda (Washington,...

Another Much-Needed Defense of Tax Competition and Tax Havens by a British Politician

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation

I sometimes make fun of the English, for reasons ranging from asinine laws to milquetoast politicians to horrid healthcare policy. But at least some U.K. elected officials are willing to stand up for tax competition and fiscal sovereignty by defending low-tax...

Obama Has United the World…in Opposition to Bad U.S. Tax Policy

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation

Last year, I came up with a saying that “Bad Government Policy Begets More Bad Government Policy” and labeled it “Mitchell’s Law” during a bout of narcissism. There are lots of examples of this phenomenon, such as the misguided War on Drugs being a precursor to...

Ending American Tax Dollars to the OECD Should Be a Minimal Test of GOP Fiscal Responsibility

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 17, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation

I wrote last week about how the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based international bureaucracy, has launched a new campaign to promote class-warfare tax policy. I’ve since learned that the OECD’s effort is even more objectionable than I...