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by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2018 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
During the Obamacare bill-signing ceremony, Vice President Biden had a “hot mic” incident when he was overheard telling Obama that “this is a big f***ing deal.” And he was telling the truth. It was a big deal (albeit a wrong deal) from a fiscal perspective and a...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 28, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The right kind of tax reform can help people directly and indirectly. They benefit directly if reform reduces their tax burden and gives them more take-home income. They benefit indirectly if reform increases growth and leads to additional pre-tax income. For what...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
Experts in the field of political marketing periodically tell me that you need to have sympathetic victims when trying to change policy. When pushing for Obamacare repeal, highlight a family who lost its health plan and now has to pay twice as much for insurance. When...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 21, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
Time for a confession. My left-wing friends are correct. I’m an idiot. Why? Because I’m an anti-tax libertarian, yet I keep writing favorably about a provision that will raise my taxes. I’m talking specifically about the provision, currently in both...
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...
