by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2019 | Blogs, Taxation
She’s not quite as bad as Matt Yglesias, who wants a top tax rate of 90 percent (a rate that Crazy Bernie also likes), but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not bashful about wanting to use the coercive power of government to take much larger shares of what...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 2, 2019 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
I’ve written many times about people and businesses escaping high-tax states and moving to low-tax states. This tax-driven migration rewards states with good policy and punishes those with bad policy. And now we have some new data. The Wall Street...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 30, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation, Trade
I periodically try to remind people that you can’t explain or understand economic performance by looking at just one policy. I’ve argued, for instance, good tax policy isn’t a panacea if there are many other policies that expand the burden of government. Likewise, bad...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 21, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
I have a series of columns where I explore tactical disagreements with folks who generally favor free markets and less government. In Part I, I defended the flat tax, which had been criticized by Reihan Salam In Part II, I explained why I thought a comprehensive...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Dec 20, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Western Journal on December 19, 2018. Republicans were forced to pull their first proposed year-end tax bill last week due to a lack of votes, in part because many members who lost their reelection bids weren’t in town. H.R. 88 included...
