by Dan Mitchell | Jul 20, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
When people in other nations ask me for evidence in favor of low taxes, I often will ask them to compare the economic performance of a high-tax nation like France with the performance of a nation such as Switzerland with less onerous taxes. If I’m asked by Americans,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
Last month, I nailed Bill and Hillary Clinton for their gross hypocrisy on the death tax. But that’s just one example. Today, we’re going to experience a festival of statist hypocrisy. We have six different nauseating examples of political elitists wanting...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 6, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Financial Privacy, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve argued that subsidies for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are the most destructively wasteful outlays in the federal budget. At least on a per-dollar-spent basis. But what if we did the same exercise on the tax side of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 26, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Health Care, Taxation
Obamacare resulted in big increases in the fiscal burden of government(ironically, it would be even worse if Obama hadn’t unilaterally suspended parts of the law). The legislation increased government spending, mostly for expanded Medicaidand big subsidies for private...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 25, 2014 | Blogs, Taxation
I wrote a post several years ago contrasting a good initiative by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and a statist proposal by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. There was no connection between the two ideas, but I thought the comparison helped show the difference between...
