by Dan Mitchell | Dec 2, 2020 | Blogs
A couple of days ago, I criticized officials at the United Nations for advocating higher taxes and bigger government. Fortunately, that bureaucracy is so sclerotic and inefficient that its efforts to promote statism are not very effective But it still galls me that...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 8, 2020 | Blogs, Health Care
Reviewing public policy and the coronavirus, I’ve mostly focused on the manifest failures of Washington bureaucracies. But let’s not overlook the politicized incompetence of the World Health Organization, a U.N.-connected bureaucracy that ostensibly exists to prevent...
by CF&P | Oct 17, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax Competition News Global Tax Hikers at WHO Ban Public, Media From Meetings There’s something fishy at the WHO. NTU’s Douglas Kellogg reports on the organization’s shenanigans as it tries to impose global tobacco...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 13, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
The United Nations is not nearly as bad as other international bureaucracies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or the International Monetary Fund. But that’s because the U.N. tends to be completely ineffective. So even when the...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 25, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
As a taxpayer, I’m not a big fan of international bureaucracies. They consume a lot of money, pay themselves extravagant (and tax-free!) salaries, and generally promote statist policies. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a prime...