Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wednesday Quick Hits

Lots of headlines since last week, so let's get right to it:
  • Cato's Dan Mitchell and Chris Edwards explain just how embarrassing it is that, with Japan's decision to lower its corporate tax rate, the United States now has the highest statutory corporate tax rate of all OECD nations.  Edwards provides a great chart: 
Me: The next time that a protectionist complains about imports, outsourcing and a lack of American competitiveness, feel free to share this chart with him/her. 
  • AEI's Phil Levy (at a very interesting forum on the National Export Initiative) explains, starting at about 1:37 the pitfalls of trying to sell free trade through mercantilism (i.e., free trade = exports = jobs) approach (h/t Bryan Riley):
  • Finally, GMU's Don Boudreaux takes to xtranormal to create a nice little cartoon explaining the idiocy of protectionism (h/t Simon Lester):
 That should keep y'all busy for a while.  Enjoy!

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