by CF&P | Oct 7, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax Competition News A Taxing Tale of Two States Steve Moore compares the opposite approaches to taxation taken by two states, Kansas and Illinois, to see who comes out on top. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemoore/2014/09/27/a-taxing-tale-of-two-states/ US Hands...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 6, 2014 | Blogs, Free Market, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of international bureaucracies. Regular readers know that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is the worst institution from my perspective, followed by the International Monetary Fund. Some folks ask why the United Nations isn’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 2, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Tax Competition, Taxation
My colleagues Chris Edwards and Nicole Kaeding have just released the biannual Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors from the Cato Institute. The Report Card is on the Cato Institute’s most impressive publications sincedevelopments on the state level help...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Much of my writing is focused on the real-world impact of government policy, and this is why I repeatedly look at the relative economic performance of big government jurisdictions and small government jurisdictions. But I don’t just highlight differences between...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2014 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
People pay every single penny of tax that politicians impose on corporations. The investors that own companies obviously pay (more than one time!) when governments tax profits. The workers employed by companies obviously pay, both directly and indirectly, because of...
