by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
More than 11 years ago, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released this video about the OECD, a Paris-based bureaucracy subsidized by American taxpayers. As outlined in the video, there are many reasons to dislike the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...
by Dan Mitchell | May 12, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Back in 2015, I joked that my life would be simpler if I had an “automatic fill-in-the-blanks system” for columns dealing with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Here’s what I proposed. We can use this shortcut today because the OECD has...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
For the past couple of decades, I’ve been warning (over and over and over and over again) that politicians want to curtail tax competition so that it will be easier for them to increase tax burdens....
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Simply stated, the Paris-based international bureaucracy represents the interests of governments, and that means the OECD often pushes policies that serve the interests of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
For supporters of sensible policy, 2008 was not a good year. The economy suffered a big drop thanks to bad government policies (easy-money from the Federal Reserve and corrupt housing subsidies from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). So what did politicians do? Sadly, they...
