by Dan Mitchell | Mar 24, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Taxation
With tax day fast approaching, it’s time to write about our good friends at the Internal Revenue Service. One of the new traditions at the IRS is an annual release of tax scams. It’s know as the “dirty dozen” list, and while it may exist mostly as a publicity stunt,...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 23, 2015 | Blogs, Energy, Taxation
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a Paris-based international bureaucracy with the self-proclaimed mission to “promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.” But if there was a...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 22, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Taxation, VAT
Even though I fret about a growing burden of government and have little faith in the ability (or desire) of politicians to make wise decisions, I somehow convince myself that good things will happen. Here’s some of what I wrote two years ago, when asked whether I...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 13, 2015 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
While I sometimes make moral arguments against the current tax system (because it is corrupt, because it doesn’t treat people equally, because it provides unearned wealth for insiders, etc), my main arguments are based on economics. High tax rates on workers and...
by CF&P | Mar 10, 2015 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax News… A Dynamic Analysis of President Obama’s Tax Initiatives President Obama’s desired tax hikes look even worse when using accurate scoring. Stephen Entin’s analysis for the Tax Foundation reveals his plan “would shrink the economy...
