by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2010 | Blogs, Europe, Taxation, VAT
My life is now devoted to saving America from the European-style national sales tax known as the value-added tax. Writing in the New York Post, I explain that the impact of a VAT in Europe is bigger government, not smaller deficits: The real-world evidence shows that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 8, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
Congressman Henry Waxman is one of the most odious statists in a town dominated by people who love big government. From his perch as Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, this career politician played a big role in concocting Obamacare – including the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 6, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, my Cato Institute colleague Alan Reynolds offers a simple economics lesson about pitfalls of class-warfare tax policy: …the evidence is clear that when marginal tax rates go up, the amount of reported incomes goes down....
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 1, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Everyone’s favorite bureaucracy really stepped in it recently, when they harassed a car wash owner for an upaid tax bill of (drumroll please) four cents. But since we’re talking about the Internal Revenue Service, the bureaucrats also tacked on an extra...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 27, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
If nothing else, the Obama Administration at least is consistent. Not only do they want higher taxes in America, but they also want other nations to pursue ruinous class warfare policies. Here’s an excerpt from Tax-news.com: US Secretary of State, Hillary...
