by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
I have a question for my friends who support a national sales tax. First, some background. Beginning with the defeat of Woody Jenkins in his Louisiana Senate race back in the 1990s, various versions of the national sales tax have caused political headaches for GOP...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Taxation, Uncategorized
Richard Rahn’s Washington Times column makes several key points about corporate taxation, including the fact that excessive taxation of capital (the corporate income tax being just one example) is extremely foolish such taxes impose the most damage – per dollar...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2010 | Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
We’ve looked at this issue before, but this new CNN article fleshes out the awful IRS rules in the new healthcare bill: The massive expansion of requirements for businesses to file 1099 tax forms that was hidden in the 2,409-page health reform bill took many by...
by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Europe, Taxation, Uncategorized
I feel like a broken record when I write about European fiscal policy. In almost all cases, I cite OECD data showing that countries are in fiscal trouble because of excessive spending rather than inadequate tax revenue. I then show that the politicians are using the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 15, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Uncategorized
Here’s some more good polling data from the Resurgent Republic website. All demographic groups, including Democrats, agree that excessive pay for federal bureaucrats is a bad thing. Maybe, just maybe, this means the productive people in society are fed up and...
