by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
At the end of last week, I wrote about the Conservative Party’s crushing defeat in the United Kingdom. In that column, I cited the Wall Street Journal, which groused that the Tories didn’t deliver better economic policy. Indeed,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
I wrote yesterday about a strange quirk in the Dutch tax system. That country (which is quite sensible on issues such as personal retirement accounts and school choice) has a very odd way of double taxing income that is saved and invested. Today, we’re...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 27, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I wrote earlier this year about Kenya’s fiscal policy and I made two points. Kenya is in trouble because the burden of government spending has exploded over the past twenty-plus years. Tax increases in Kenya are backfiring because people are changing their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy that originally was created to engage in benign activities such as gathering statistics about member nations. It still does some of that, but it also has...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2024 | Blogs, Taxation
Less than two months ago, I shared a chart looking at tax burdens on saving and investment in the industrialized world. The nation with the lowest tax burden on capital was Lithuania (unsurprisingly, all of the Baltic countries scored...
