by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Remember the supposedly breathtaking revelations from the “Panama Papers” back in 2016? We were told those stolen documents were an indictment against so-called tax havens, but the real lesson was that politicians and other government insiders are very prone...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 4, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
How the Irish Saved Civilization was a bestselling book in the mid-1990s. Today, we’re going to consider an updated version, focusing on whether Ireland can save the world economy from Joe Biden’s plan for a global tax cartel. This should be a slam-dunk...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2021 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
The best news of 2021 almost surely is the big expansion of school choice in several states. That’s a great development, especially for poor and minority families. But there’s another positive trend at the state level. As indicated...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
I critiqued Biden’s proposal for a global corporate tax cartel as part of a recent discussion with South Africa’s Free Market Foundation. Here’s the segment where I explain why it would be bad for developing nations. At the risk of stating the...
by Brian Garst | Jul 15, 2021 | Blogs, Education, Tax Competition, Taxation, Trade
President Biden recently issued an “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” (EO). It covers a vast array of issues, and can correctly be framed as yet another data point in the thesis that the presidency has grown too big and...
