by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Taxation
Tax-news.com reports that the French and Italian governments want Europe to impose a tax on imports from nations that don’t adopt misguided climate-change/global-warming rules. This is awful policy, but the good news is that such a policy presumably won’t...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
Being an American citizen is an honor in many ways, but it is a huge millstone around the neck for highly successful investors and entrepreneurs because of an oppressive and complex tax system. This is particularly true for those based in and/or competing in global...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 18, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
The serial mendacity that characterizes Washington is on full display in David Border’s column entitled “Without higher taxes, the national debt will be crushing.” Yes, this is the same David Broder who did not write columns about the threat of...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Taxation
A former White House speechwriter, Mark Thiessen, has jumped to the defense of his former boss, writing for the Washington Post that George W. Bush “established a conservative record without parallel.” Even by the loose standards of Washington, that is a...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 15, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
Caroline Baum of Bloomberg has a good column against the value-added tax, in part because she quotes me, but more so because she effectively explains that a national sales tax like the VAT would be an add-on tax that would finance much bigger government: As Americans...
