by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2022 | Blogs, Taxation
How do we know people don’t like taxes? They tend to reject candidates who support higher taxes, as George H.W. Bush and other politicians have learned.Then tend to vote against higher taxes when given an opportunity (though...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2022 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Government Spending, Government Waste, States
My main objection to government employees is that they work for bureaucracies that should not exist (especially the ones in Washington). That being said, I also don’t like how bureaucrats are overpaid compared to workers in the productive sector of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 21, 2022 | Blogs, States, Taxation
I regularly share reports that measure how states rank for economic policy. Economic Freedom of North AmericaFreedom in the 50 StatesState Business Tax Climate IndexState income taxesState sales taxesState budgetary burdens Now we can augment this collection. A...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2022 | Blogs, States, Taxation
I wrote two months ago about Iowa lawmakers voting for a simple and fair flat tax. I explained how this reform would make the state more competitive, but I want to build upon that argument with some of the Tax Foundation’s data. Starting with this map from...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 14, 2022 | Blogs, States, Taxation
Last year I shared a very encouraging map, which identified the many states that have been cutting tax rates. After the November elections, I wrote a couple of encouraging columns about voters making sensible decisions when given the ability...
