by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The best referendum result of 2020 (indeed, the best policy development of the year) was when the people of Illinois voted to preserve their flat tax, thus delivering a crushing defeat to the Prairie State’s hypocritical governor, J.B....
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2021 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
The bad news is that federalism has declined in the United States as politicians in Washington have expanded the size and scope of the national government. The good news is that some federalism still exists and this means Americans have some...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, States
Last year, I compared the economic performance of red states and blue states. My big takeaway from that column is that we should pay attention to the data on internal migration. More specifically, there’s a reason why Americans have been moving...
by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Tax increases are bad fiscal policy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are politically unpopular. Indeed, many voices in the establishment press are citing favorable polling data in hopes of creating an aura on inevitably...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2021 | Taxation
When I ask my left-leaning friends what they think about the flight of investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners from high-tax states, I tend to get three responses. It isn’t actually happening (these are my friends who apparently don’t know how to read).It’s...
