by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
A couple of decades can make a huge difference in the political and economic life of a jurisdiction. Two decades ago, Venezuela had not yet been subjected to the horror of Hugo Chavez and his destructive statism. Three decades ago, the pro-market success story of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 10, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
I’m not a fan of international bureaucracies, but they’re not universally bad. Yes, we almost always get a bad policy agenda from the left-leaning political appointees who run these organizations. But it’s also true that the professional economists at these...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 7, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
The Swiss people are normally very sensible when asked to vote in national referendums. Here are some recent results. In 2010, nearly 60 percent of the electorate rejected a class-warfare income tax proposal. In 2014, Swiss voters overwhelmingly killed a minimum-wage...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 19, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
The worst-international-bureaucracy contest is heating up. In recent years, the prize has belonged to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for reasons outlined in this interview. Indeed, I’ve even argued that subsidies for the OECD are...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I strongly applauded the tax reform plan that was enacted in December, especially the lower corporate tax rate and the limit on the deduction for state and local taxes. But I’m not satisfied. Our long-run goal should be fundamental tax reform. And that means replacing...
