by Dan Mitchell | Apr 19, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve
Art Laffer has a guaranteed spot in the liberty hall of fame because he popularized the common-sense notion that you can’t make any assumptions about tax rates and tax revenue without also figuring out what happens to taxable income. Lot’s of people on the left try to...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
Tax competition, as I have explained to the point of being a nuisance, is an important restraint on the greed of the political class. Simply stated, politicians are less like to over-tax and over-spend if they know that geese with the golden eggs can fly across the...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2011 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
The tax code is punitive and corrupt, but the economic damage caused by a bad revenue system is just part of the problem. Thanks to a punitive “worldwide” approach to taxation, we have needless conflicts with other nations, leading the United States to side with...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 2, 2011 | Blogs, Financial Privacy, Monetary Policy
I’m depressed about the global network of tax police being organized by the OECD and high-tax governments. If successful, it will lead to much bigger, more oppressive government. But maybe there’s a way of fighting back. Here’s a video from the folks at Reason TV...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I commented yesterday about the silly idea, being promoted by a few politicians, to impose a tax on toilet paper. That post mostly was an opportunity to have some fun mocking greedy government because even a dour pessimist like me doesn’t expect that idea to get very...
