British Business Writer Explains: Thanks to Tax Competition and Tax Havens, the Greed of the Political Class Is Being Constrained

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of tax competition because politicians are less likely to misbehave if the potential victims of plunder have the ability to escape across borders. Here is an excerpt from a superb article by Allister Heath, one of the U.K.’s...

Since When Does the United Nations Rather than Congress Get to Declare War for the United States?

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 19, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized

I’m not a foreign policy expert, so perhaps I’m missing something, but a quick glance at the Constitution reveals that Congress has the power to declare war, as specified in Article I, Section VIII. Nobody else has that power, not even the President. Notwithstanding...

English Anti-Tax Haven Ideologues Are Just as Foolish and Ignorant as their American Cousins

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation

There’s a supposed expose in the U.K.-based Daily Mail about how major British companies have subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions. It even includes this table with the ostensibly shocking numbers. This is quite akin to the propaganda issued by American statists....