by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Taxation
I have a column in the Washington Times speculating on ways we could lower our tax bills if we could use the same creative accounting that the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation used to help impose Obamacare on the nation: If you’re...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2010 | Blogs, Europe, Taxation
The overall fiscal burden in the United States may be lower than it is in Europe, but there are some features of the internal revenue code that are far worse than what can be found on the other side of the Atlantic. America has a “worldwide” tax system,...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
A Washington Post columnist reports on a group of limousine liberals who are lobbying to pay more taxes. Of course, there’s no law that prevents them from writing big checks to the government and voluntarily paying more, so what they’re really lobbying for...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Apr 12, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Richard Rahn recently wrote an article in the Washington Times about issues of morality and the IRS. His conclusions about the oppressive nature of the federal tax bureaucracy and accurate contrasts with state tax agencies are particularly relevant in April. Would...
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...
