LATEST from Center for Freedom and Prosperity on Youtube: Labor Department numbers show that the Obama Administrations $787 billion stimulus was a flop. Instead of holding the unemployment rate at 8 percent or below, the jobless rate soared to 10 percent. Now there is discussion of second so-called stimulus, which politicians are calling a jobs bill. But making government bigger, this CF&P Foundation video explains, is a recipe for long-run stagnation and lower living standards, regardless of what the policy is named.

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Dr. Richard W. Rahn would like to share a new video of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity "The Empirical Evidence Against Big Government." The video presents real-world data and research showing that the burden of government spending is far too high – not only in the United States (where the Bush-Obama policies have increased the federal budget by more than 100 percent), but also in other nations where government budgets sometimes consume more than one-half of an economy's output.

Link to Press Release:
http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/press/p09-15-09/p09-15-09.shtml

From the Center for Freedom and Prosperity: Richard Rahn would like to share a new video Free Markets and Small Government Promote Prosperity, released by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity:

Keynesian Economics Is Wrong: Bigger Gov't Is Not Stimulus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoxDyC7y7PM

From the CF&P Foundation: Dr. Richard W. Rahn would like to share the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation's new video, Obama's So-Called Stimulus: Good For Government, Bad For the Economy:

Link: http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/videos/videos.shtml

Reuters reports that Obama may propose as much as $1 trillion (yes, trillion) of new spending, which would be in addition to the huge expansion of government under Bush, is it true (as Richard Nixon once remarked) that “we are all Keynesians now?

Not quite. Here’s a new video that explains why Keynesian “stimulus” proposals are theoretically misguided. The video also provides real-world evidence showing that bigger government does not work.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/12/15/are-we-all-keynesians-now/

CATO Institute har for nylig udgivet en bog om skattekonkurrence af Chris Edwards and Daniel J. Mitchell med titlen Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It. Den er fuld af statistisk materiale samt interessante historier, der dokumenterer reaktionerne på et ikke-konkurrencedygtigt skattetryk. Hvis man bruger tid på at skrive om skattetrykkets negative konsekvenser i Danmark i dagspressen, kan bogen tjene til bidrag til nye vinkler på debatten. Helt afgørende er det dog også, at man sætter sig ind i hvilke principper, der bør afgrænse (eller eventuelt sætte en stopper for) beskatning. COIN's indstilling er at beskatning er en krænkelse af den private ejendomsret. Mere inspiration finder man her.

Se også 180grader.dk: Selvskabsskatten presses af international konkurrence.

From Richard Rahn: New CF&P Foundation Video Illustrates the
Moral Case for Tax Havens

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video demonstrates that low-tax jurisdictions offer millions of people around the world a safe haven from tyrannical and oppressive government. For this, and many other reasons, there is a powerful moral case for preserving and promoting tax havens. This mini-documentary is the second installment of a three-part series on the beneficial impact of low-tax jurisdictions. In addition to showing how tax havens promote human rights and individual liberty, the video exposes the hypocritical anti-tax competition efforts of statist international bureaucracies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

From Richard Rahn: Several new videos on taxation are available for viewers in America and around the world. A new " Tax Tyranny" video narrated and produced by Beverly Halberg highlights the harsh consequences of oppressive taxation. The video also presents a stark contrast between the low tax rates of the dynamic Irish economy and the stifling tax policies promulgated by the EU and OECD in the name of "tax harmonization."

A New Look at Laffer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHR4pWLPdZM

Dr. Mitchell addresses this issue [of high tax evasion] through his research at the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (www.freedomandprosperity.org). The OECD has a blacklist for countries they've identified as "tax havens." The blacklisted countries include Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia (Labuan) and Singapore. Also targeted are Andorra, Brunei, Costa Rica, Dubai, Guatemala, Liberia, Liechtenstein, the Marshall Islands, Monaco, the Philippines and Uruguay. The blacklisted jurisdictions have strong financial privacy laws and low or zero rates of tax. - - The OECD member countries want the so-called tax havens to change their laws to help them identify the earnings of their citizens. Most of all, OECD wants these countries to legislate higher taxes so as to reduce their appeal. A suggestion that we should be more like Europe is the same as one suggesting that we should be poorer. From Should America Copy Modern Europe? by Walter Williams.

Dan Mitchell from the CATO Institute explains the benefits of tax competition in the short video "Tax Competition: A Liberalizing Force in the World Economy". He shows how tax competition has been essential for growth with regard to the global economy as well as with respect to the European market.

He mentions that the freedom to cut taxes has forced a lot of socialist governments in Europe to keep taxes at a low rate in order for them not to lose their tax base. Mitchell furthermore reminds the public that the France based OECD is a bureaucracy that works towards undermining national sovereignty by creating a global tax cartel.

The latter issue has gained increasing relevance by the recent decision of the political establishment in most EU nations to impose a constitution on the European public without consulting the latter. By doing so the political leaders in Europe have moved the EU closer to harmonization of taxes (and more socialism), and hence towards a reduction in economic growth.

The video is produced for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.

Tax Competition: A Liberalizing Force in the World Economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJWLemN29Wc