by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m currently in Iceland for a conference organized by the European Students for Liberty. I spoke earlier today on the case for lower taxes and I made six basic points. Taxes undermine prosperity. Taxes reduce competitiveness. Taxes are self-destructive. Taxes are...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 28, 2017 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Not everybody appreciates my defense of tax havens. A Clinton Administration official accused me of disloyalty to America. The OECD threatened to throw me in a Mexican jail. A former U.S. Senator said I was guilty of “trading with the enemy.” I don’t mind these...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2017 | Blogs, Taxation
In my research and travels, I come across all sorts of strange stories about tax policy. Sometimes I learn about bizarrely foolish tax policies, such as the German tax on online coffee sales that loses money for government. Sometimes I learn about heartening protests...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 20, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
I argued last year that leftists should be nice to rich people because upper-income taxpayers finance the vast majority of the American welfare state according to government data. Needless to say, my comment about being “nice” was somewhat sarcastic. But I was making...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) must be anxious to get on my list of government bureaucracies that shouldn’t exist. The bureaucrats have engaged in some really silly and petty behavior (such as confiscating Airsoft toy guns because they might be...
