by Dan Mitchell | Jun 18, 2010 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Here’s a cheerful story I saw linked on Drudge, which shows that sometimes rich people are not guilt-ridden statists and instead stand shoulder to shoulder with ordinary people to fight bad government policy. In Australia, the leftist government wants to impose...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 11, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
This story from Philadelphia, which I saw on Reason’s Hit and Run blog, is one of the worst examples I’ve ever seen of government bureaucrats bilking taxpayers. The City Manager, who already receives an absurdly extravagent salary and hasn’t even...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
I may as well confess that I have a man-crush on Governor Christie. It’s not nearly as bad as Andrew Sullivan’s fixation on Obama (and it certainly hasn’t involved me changing my views), but this video and the excerpt below are two examples of a...
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...
