by Dan Mitchell | Apr 27, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
What happens when you mix something good with something bad? To be more specific, what happens when you have a big success story, like the spending cap in Switzerland that has dramatically slowed the growth of government, and then expect intelligent and coherent...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
There’s an old joke about two guys camping in the woods, when suddenly they see a hungry bear charging over a hill in their direction. One of the guys starts lacing up his sneakers and his friend says, “What are you doing? You can’t outrun a bear.” The other guys...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 14, 2013 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Europe, Free Market, Welfare and Entitlements
Switzerland’s left-wing party has instigated a referendum for November 24 that asks voters to limit pay ranges so that a company wouldn’t be able to pay top employees more than 12 times what they’re paying their lowest-level employees. I talked with Neil Cavuto about...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 21, 2013 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Havens, Taxation
Because we live in an upside-down world, Switzerland is being persecuted for being a productive, peaceful nation that has a strong human rights policy with regards to privacy. More specifically, politicians from high-tax nations resent the fact that investors flock to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2013 | Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
At the European Resource Bank conference earlier this month, Pierre Bessard from Switzerland’s Institut Liberal spoke on a panel investigating “The Link between the Weight of the State and Economic prosperity.” His presentation included two slides that definitely are...
