by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
When politicians target “the rich” with class-warfare schemes like wealth taxes, it’s often ordinary people that bear the costs. For a painful example of how this works in the real world, check out the first 42 seconds of this video. From an economic...
by Sven R. Larson | Oct 22, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
In the last few days, European media have boasted breaking news about the tax scandal of the century. A German journalist network is credited with uncovering gigantic “tax fraud” involving banks from several European countries, and at least one American...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 22, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the many frustrations of working in Washington is that politicians, when dealing with a problem created by government intervention, routinely propose that the solution is to give even more power to government. And since they are either unwilling or unable to...