Should States Be Allowed to Tax Outside their Borders, Particularly if It Means a Database of Your Online Purchases?

by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation

Tax competition, as I have explained to the point of being a nuisance, is an important restraint on the greed of the political class. Simply stated, politicians are less like to over-tax and over-spend if they know that geese with the golden eggs can fly across the...

CF&P President Andrew Quinlan Comments on Levin-Conrad-Whitehouse Amendment to Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill

by CF&P | Mar 15, 2012 | News, Press Releases

Center for Freedom and Prosperity For Immediate Release Thursday, March 15, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org CF&P President Andrew Quinlan Comments on Levin-Conrad-Whitehouse Amendment to Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill (Washington, D.C.,...

Patriotism, Loyalty, Tax Competition, and “Tax Fugitives”

by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2012 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation

I fight to preserve tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy for the simple reason that politicians are less likely to impose destructive tax policy if they know that labor and capital can escape to jurisdictions with more responsible fiscal...

OECD Subsidies Are Against U.S. Interests

by CF&P | Feb 6, 2012 | CF&P Foundation Libertas Policy Briefs, Publications

[PDF Version] OECD Subsidies Are Against U.S. Interests The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is a Paris-based bureaucracy which increasingly promotes a big government agenda. In recent years the organization has supported for the U.S. a...

Since Obama’s Class-Warfare Tax Policy Is Failing in Illinois, Why Does He Think It Will Work for the Entire Country?

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 27, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation

President Obama’s two biggest “achievements” since taking office are the so-called stimulus and government-run healthcare. But neither one of those policies are popular, so the President largely ignored them during his state-of-the-union address and instead focused on...