by Dan Mitchell | Aug 31, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation
I’m in Slovenia where I just finished indoctrinating educating a bunch of students on the importance of Mitchell’s Golden Rule as a means of restraining the burden of government spending. And I emphasized that the fiscal problem in Europe is the size of government,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 29, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Flat Tax, Laffer Curve, Taxation
Even though I’m not a Romney fan, I sometimes feel compelled to defend him against leftist demagoguery. But instead of writing about tax havens, as I’ve done in the past, today we’re going to look at incremental tax reform. The left has been loudly asserting that the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Competition, Taxation
In previous posts, I put together tutorials on the Laffer Curve, tax competition, and the economics of government spending. Today, we’re going to look at the issue of tax reform. The focus will be the flat tax, but this analysis applies equally to national sales tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2012 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
I appeared on CNBC a couple of days ago to discuss a new report which claims that some big U.S. companies “only” paid 9 percent of their income to the government. While I’m a bit skeptical of the numbers (did it include the taxes paid to foreign governments, for...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2012 | Blogs, Capital Gains, Taxation
The silly debate about the “Buffett Rule” is really an argument about the extent to which there should be more double taxation of income that is saved and invested. Politicians conveniently forget that dividends and capital gains get hit by the corporate income tax....
