by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I tangle with my old nemesis Christian Weller, one of the statists at the Center against American Progress, in a debate on whether the corporate tax rate should be reduced. I was somewhat amused that Christian defended the current system because companies currently...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 22, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I ran across two interesting lists showing how politicians at the state and local level are often just as bad as the ones in Washington, DC. First, Forbes has an article identifying the 10 states with the highest income tax rates. The top rate is a big deterrent to...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 2, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation, VAT
The federal government is capable of enormous waste, which obviously is bad news, but the worst forms of government spending are those that actually leverage bad things. The old welfare system, for instance, paid people not to work and have babies out of wedlock (this...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 23, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
In the future, all dictionary publishers should get rid of their existing definitions for “hypocrisy” and replace them with a photo of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. He’s just been caught committing the horrible sin of saving his family more than $500,000 by...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2010 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
With apologies to Dr. Seuss, maybe that will be the name of a future book I’ll write about the anti-competitive impact of high tax rates. And one of my chapters will be about what we can learn from the states. Richard Rahn’s column in the Washington Times reviews some...
