by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2011 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Have you ever wondered why the tax code is a Byzantine mess that requires 72,000 pages of law and regulation? Hopefully you don’t ponder such dark and dreary thoughts, but the answer is that politicians and lobbyists have spent nearly 100 years creating all sorts of...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 14, 2011 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation, VAT
Here’s a very good new video from the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, in which he explains why lower tax rates and fewer loopholes are the keys to a simple, fair, and competitive tax system. Very well done. Given my video on the flat tax, as well as my video...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 2, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
I haven’t said much about the 2012 election, largely because this blog tries to avoid politics and instead focuses on how public policy can promote or (all too often) restrict liberty. But every so often, I feel compelled to pontificate – usually because someone is...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation
The on-again, off-again “Gang of Six” has come back on the scene and is offering a “Bipartisan Plan to Reduce Our Nation’s Deficits.” The proposal is quite similar to the one put forth by the President’s Simpson-Bowles Commission, which isn’t too surprising since some...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2011 | Blogs, Taxation
Those who had the misfortune of seeing President Obama go after “tax breaks for corporate jets” as part of his press conference may be wondering why he was attacking a provision that was in his so-called stimulus and enacted by a Democratic-controlled Congress in...
