Mission corruption
Richard Rahn writes on a new study of the perversion of policy-making goals at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development:
"'There is something particularly galling about people sitting in Paris, getting hefty tax-free salaries [also true of those working for the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other international organizations] paid by the rest of us, spending their time telling the rest of the world to pay higher taxes.' Finally, perhaps most frightening of all, as Ms. Moberg notes, 'The ongoing project against tax competition can be seen in a larger perspective of international organizations moving into areas of international regulation, if not by legal means then by peer pressure and norm setting.'
What we are seeing is the growth of international, non-elected bureaucracies that hack away at our liberties and economic freedoms, destroying jobs and opportunity, all in the name of redistributionist and "tax-fairness" schemes. In the case of the OECD, the United States is funding approximately a quarter of its budget."
Thanks, David.
"'There is something particularly galling about people sitting in Paris, getting hefty tax-free salaries [also true of those working for the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other international organizations] paid by the rest of us, spending their time telling the rest of the world to pay higher taxes.' Finally, perhaps most frightening of all, as Ms. Moberg notes, 'The ongoing project against tax competition can be seen in a larger perspective of international organizations moving into areas of international regulation, if not by legal means then by peer pressure and norm setting.'
What we are seeing is the growth of international, non-elected bureaucracies that hack away at our liberties and economic freedoms, destroying jobs and opportunity, all in the name of redistributionist and "tax-fairness" schemes. In the case of the OECD, the United States is funding approximately a quarter of its budget."
Thanks, David.
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