by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Thanks to globalization (as opposed to globalism), jobs and investment are now very mobile. This means the costs of bad policy are higher than ever before, and it also means the benefits of good policy are higher than ever before. Which is why it’s very...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
For the past couple of decades, I’ve been warning (over and over and over and over again) that politicians want to curtail tax competition so that it will be easier for them to increase tax burdens....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 5, 2021 | Taxation
Two years ago, I wrote about how two former Prime Ministers in the United Kingdom, David Cameron and Theresa May, did a very good job of restraining spending. On average, spending increased by only 1.8 percent per year last decade, which helped to...
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...
