by Dan Mitchell | Sep 3, 2025 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation, Uncategorized
Who are the world’s worst fiscal hypocrites? Some people say the answer is the international bureaucrats at the OECD, IMF, and UN who push for higher taxes while receiving lavish tax-free salaries. Other people say the answer is politicians in the United...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 15, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
I was going to continue my Second-Edition-of-Trump series (see here, here, here, and here) by writing about what to expect with regards to trade (pessimistic) and then taxes (optimistic). But I’m shifting gears today because the bureaucrats at the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I’ve written a few columns that explain tax principles, but this video from the Tax Foundation may be the best place to start if you have friends or colleagues who need to learn the basics. As part of the article that accompanies the video, the Tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
Since I’m a fiscal wonk, it’s sometimes tempting to overstate the importance of good tax policy. So I’m always reminding myself that all sorts of other factors matter for a jurisdiction’s competitiveness and success, including regulation and government effectiveness...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 27, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Supply Side, Taxation
In my never-ending strategy to educate policy makers about the Laffer Curve, I generally rely on both microeconomic theory (i.e., people respond to incentives) and real-world examples. And my favorite real-world example is what happened in the 1980s when Reagan cut...
