by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2018 | Blogs, Tax Havens, Taxation
According to bureaucrats at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, so-called tax havens are terrible and should be shut down. Their position is grossly hypocritical since they get tax-free salaries while pushing for higher taxes on...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 29, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Judged by the amount of attention various provisions produced, last year’s fight over tax reform was about reducing the corporate tax rate and limiting the deduction for state and local taxes. But there were many other important changes, including a a big increase in...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 26, 2018 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
I don’t like it when voters support tax increases. Needless to say, voters rarely if ever vote to raise their own taxes. Instead, they get seduced into robbing their neighbors in exchange for the promise of new goodies from politicians. Regardless, it’s still very...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 24, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Last November, I wrote about the lessons we should learn from tax policy in the 1950s and concluded that very high tax rates impose a very high price. About six months before that, I shared lessons about tax policy in the 1980s and pointed out that Reaganomics was a...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 18, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Here are three things I’ve written about tax policy. See if you can detect a pattern: I’ve written that I don’t want a value-added tax because the money would be used to finance bigger government. I’ve also explained I don’t want a carbon tax because the revenue from...
