Gordon Brown’s VAT folly should be a sharp lesson to Barack Obama

January 13, 2009 by Douglas A. McIntyre

by Rob Arnott & John Tamny

Back in the dark economic days of the late 1970s and early 1980s, truly revolutionary change on taxation improved the economic outlook in both Great Britain and the United States.

With demand-driven Keynesian thinking having proved ineffective as an economic stimulant, classical thinkers possessing a greater affinity for the works of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill successfully filled the gaping policy void

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