by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve written a couple of times to explain why the deduction for state and local taxes should be eliminated as part of pro-growth tax reform. One of my main arguments, as I pointed out at the beginning of this interview, is that Republicans are generally unwilling to...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 26, 2017 | Blogs, States
Perhaps because there’s no hope for genuine Obamacare repeal and limited hope for sweeping tax reform, I’m having to look outside of Washington for good news. I wrote the other day about the very successful tax reforms in North Carolina. So now let’s travel to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 7, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, States, Taxation
Back at the end of April, President Trump got rolled in his first big budget negotiation with Congress. The deal, which provided funding for the remainder of the 2017 fiscal year, was correctly perceived as a victory for Democrats. How could this happen, given that...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 20, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, States
I don’t know if Dr. Seuss would appreciate my title, which borrows from his children’s classic. But given how I enjoy comparative rankings, I couldn’t help myself after perusing a new study from WalletHub that ranks states on their independence (or lack thereof)....
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 17, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Whenever I debate my left-wing friends on tax policy, they routinely assert that taxes don’t matter. They argue that we don’t have to worry about the Laffer Curve because high tax rates don’t discourage taxable income. They argue that we don’t have to worry about...
