by Dan Mitchell | Feb 17, 2023 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
The Baltic nation of Estonia is an improbable success. After breaking free from the horror of Soviet communism, leaders adopted pro-market reforms. Including a low-rate flat tax for households.Including a pro-growth tax system for...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m a long-time proponent of tax reform and I mostly focus on the flat tax, but as I wrote last month, a national sales tax also is a good option. Here’s some of what I said on the topic back in 2007. The key thing to understand is that the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
It’s fun to write about big-picture issues such as tax reform (for instance, should we have a flat tax or national sales tax?). It’s also fun to write about contentious issues such as whether there should be tax increases or whether the tax code should be based on...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 16, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
Fundamental tax reform is back on the agenda, with House Republicans promising a vote this year on a national sales tax, so I dug into C-Span’s archives so I could share a few of my thoughts from 2007 on the Fair Tax. As you might suspect, the principles I believed in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 13, 2023 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of the Internal Revenue Service, but our awful (and anti-growth) tax system is mostly the fault of politicians. Ever since that dark day in 1913 when the income tax was enacted, presidents and members of...
