by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation, Uncategorized
Last summer, I provided testimony to the United Nations’ High-Level Panel on Financial Accountability Transparency & Integrity. I touched on many issues, but my testimony focused on some core principles of sensible taxation. Low marginal tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
What nation serves as the most powerful example of how statism can wreck an economy and impoverish people? The Soviet UnionGreeceCubaChinaZimbabweVenezuela Those are all good choices, but perhaps Argentina is the best example (or should we say worst example?). If...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 15, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
The 21st century has been bad news for proponents of limited government. Bush was a big spender, Obama was a big spender, Trump was a big spender, and now Biden also wants to buy votes with other people’s money. That’s the bad news. The good news...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
I’ve shared three reasons why Biden’s tax plan is misguided (the tax code is biased against rich taxpayers, the tax hike would have Laffer-Curve implications, and it would saddle America with the world’s highest corporate tax burden). For Part...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
In Part I of this series, I explained that President-Elect Biden’s soak-the-rich agenda didn’t make sense because the internal revenue code already is very biased against upper-income taxpayers. Indeed, the U.S. tax system is even more weighted against...
