by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 28, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Blaze on June 28, 2016. The full costs of Obamcare’s ill-advised takeover of the health care system – whether measured in dollars or lives – are still being tallied. But one last thumb in the eye of taxpayers could come from the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Flat Tax, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Taxation
There’s no agreement on the most important variable for state tax competitiveness. You could make a strong case that it is the overall share of income taken by politicians in the state. Or you could argue that the tax system for employers is the key metric. And the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 28, 2016 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
Long-run trends are an enormously important – yet greatly underappreciated – feature of public policy. Slight differences in growth can have enormous implications for a nation’s long-run prosperity. Gradual shifts in population trends may determine whether a nation...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 12, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I was in Montreal last week for a conference on tax competition, where I participated in a debate about whether the corporate income tax should be abolished with my crazy left-wing friend Richard Murphy. But I don’t want to write about that debate, both because I was...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you look at oil-rich jurisdictions around the world, it’s easy to see why experts sometimes write about the “resource curse.” Simply stated, governments don’t have much incentive to be responsible when they can use oil as a seemingly endless source of tax revenue....
