by CF&P | Jul 18, 2011 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity For Immediate Release Monday, July 18, 2011 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org CF&P Letters to Treasury and Congress Call for Cost-Benefit Analysis, Repeal of FATCA (Washington, D.C., Monday, July 18, 2011) In a pair of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Laffer Curve, Taxation
President Obama is stubbornly clinging to his ideological agenda of bigger government and class warfare. Wasteful programs magically become “investments” for growth, and higher tax rates get turned into “shared sacrifice.” Interestingly, we already know what...
by Brian Garst | Jul 2, 2011 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
We fight to preserve tax competition among nations, but the principle’s effects exist within the US among the states, as well. George Scoville writes about the likely outcomes of a decision by Vermont to raise their cigarette taxes by $0.38 while New Hampshire...
by Kevin Hilferty | Jun 10, 2011 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
Bill Cosby, actor and comedian, cited the comparatively high taxes in Canada as to why he has no tour dates there anytime soon. Asked by a fan on his Twitter account why he isn’t coming to our neighbor to the North, he replied: It is a commonly held belief that famous...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Tax Havens, Taxation
I’ve been battling the Organization for Economic Cooperation for years, ever since the Paris-based bureaucracy unveiled its “harmful tax competition” project in the late 1990s. Controlled by Europe’s high-tax welfare states, the OECD wants to prop up the fiscal...
