by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m a big fan of federalism because states have the flexibility to choose good policy or bad policy. And that’s good news for me since I get to write about the consequences. One of the main lessons we learn (see here, here, here, here, and here) is that high-earning...
by Brian Garst | Mar 26, 2018 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill is full of waste, but one thing it thankfully does not include is the Internet Sales Tax. This is a welcome development, as Rep. Kristi Noem pushed hard to have her Remote Transactions Parity Act (RTPA) included as a rider in...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2018 | Blogs, States, Taxation
One of the key principles of a free society is that governmental power should be limited by national borders. Here’s an easy-to-understand example. Gambling is basically illegal (other than government-run lottery scams, of course) in my home state of Virginia. So they...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 26, 2018 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
In 2016, here’s some of what I wrote about the economic outlook in Illinois. There’s a somewhat famous quote from Adam Smith (“there is a great deal of ruin in a nation“) about the ability of a country to survive and withstand lots of bad public policy. I’ve tried to...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2018 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
If I was a citizen of the United Kingdom, I would have voted to leave the European Union for the simple reason that even a rickety lifeboat is better than a slowly sinking ship. More specifically, demographic changes and statist policies are a crippling...
