MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'haven'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:23 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4747602&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FOOz5ZFxMdvA%2F By Daniel J. MitchellThere hasn’t been much good economic news in recent years, but one bright spot for the economy is that the United States is a haven for foreign investors and this has helped attract more than $10 trillion to American capital markets according to Commerce Department data. These funds are hugely important for the health of the U.S. financial sector and are a critical source of funds for new job creation and other forms of investment. This is a credit to the competitiveness of American banks and other financial institutions, but we also should give credit to politicians. For more than 90 years, Congress has approved and maintained laws to attract investment from overseas. As a general rule, foreigners are not taxed on interest they earn in America. Moreover, by not... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4747602 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:40:43 +0100 4747602 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4389176&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxPMowgGLFf4%2F By Daniel J. MitchellThere’s a supposed expose’ in the U.K.-based Daily Mail about how major British companies have subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions. It even includes this table with the ostensibly shocking numbers. This is quite akin to the propaganda issued by American statists. Here’s a table from a report issued by a left-wing group that calls itself “Business and Investors Against Tax Haven Abuse.” At the risk of being impolite, I’ll ask the appropriate rhetorical question: What do these tables mean? Are the leftists upset that multinational companies exist? If so, there’s really no point in having a discussion. Are they angry that these firms are legally trying to minimize tax? If so, they must not understand that management has a fidu... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4389176 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:32:12 +0100 4389176 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3929218&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FcIecKUx-rM0%2F By Daniel J. MitchellHere’s a Reuters story about the Australian Tax Office harassing Paul Hogan, better known to Americans as Crocodile Dundee, because of a tax dispute. The grinches at the tax office took advantage of Hogan’s return for his mother’s funeral to hold him hostage, refusing to let him leave the country until he coughs up some cash. It appears that the tax police in Australia are just as politicized and above the law as the IRS. Hogan has never been charged with tax evasion and there are plenty of signs that the bureaucrats want to make him a high-profile victim to justify the amount of money that has been squandered in a probe of supposed offshore evasion. Actor Paul Hogan, star of the “Crocodile Dundee” movies, has vowed to continue fighting ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3929218 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:02:34 +0100 3929218 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272893&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoNbEv1aIZFs%2F By Daniel J. MitchellIn a rational world, Switzerland would be a role model for other nations. It is quite prosperous thanks largely to a modest burden of government. There is remarkable ethnic and religoius diversity, but virtually no tension because power is decentralized (sort of what America’s Founders envisioned for the United States). Yet despite these — and many other — attractive features, Switzerland is being persecuted because of strong human rights laws that protect financial privacy. Money-hungry politicians from other nations resent Swtizerland’s attractive policies, and they would rather trample Swiss sovereignty rather than fix their own oppressive tax laws. An official from the Swiss Bankers Association provides some background in a New York Times co... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272893 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:06:43 +0100 3272893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3200420&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F7LjzmN67R6o%2F By Daniel J. MitchellA Swiss court just threw a wrench in the gears of an IRS effort to impose bad U.S. tax law on an extraterritorial basis, ruling that Switzerland-based UBS does not have to hand over data to the American tax authorities. This ruling nullifies an agreement that the Swiss government was coerced into making with the U.S. government last year. In typical arrogant fashion, the IRS already has indicated that it still expects acquiescence, notwithstanding Switzerland’s strong human rights policy on personal privacy. The Bloomberg story excerpted below has the details, but it’s worth noting that this entire fight exists solely because the Internal Revenue Code imposes double taxation on income that is saved and invested, and imposes that bad policy on economic acti... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3200420 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:51:33 +0100 3200420 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3026658&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fuw5v4TlItIY%2F Regular readers of this blog are familiar with the tax competition battle, which largely revolves around high-tax governments attempting to track — and tax — economic activity that migrates to lower-tax jurisdictions. But this is not just a global fight between decrepit welfare states such as France and fiscal havens such as the Cayman Islands. American states also compete with each other, and there are numerous examples of high-tax states such as California and New York trying to grab money from people who escape to zero-income tax states such as Nevada and Florida. The fight even exists at the local level, and a good example is the attempt by politicians to tax faraway online travel agencies. The Orange County Register opines about these extraterritorial tax grabs: A recent l... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3026658 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:43:25 +0100 3026658 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2958815&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fe23u5_Pqseo%2F Cato director of health policy studies Michael F. Cannon will participate in a live online chat today at the New Haven Register. The event starts at 2pm EST and will last for an hour. We encourage you to submit questions once the event has started. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) will participate in the chat alongside Cannon. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2958815 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:28:32 +0100 2958815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2950718&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6O-iV2k_mkk%2F Tax competition is an issue that arouses passion on both sides of the debate. Libertarians and other free-market advocates welcome tax competition as a way of restraining the greed of politicians. Governments have lowered tax rates in recent decades, for instance, because politicians are afraid that the geese that lay the golden eggs can fly across the border. But collectivists despise tax competition — for exactly the same reason. They want investors, entrepreneurs, and companies to passively serve as free vending machines, dispensing never-ending piles of money for politicians. So when a left-wing group puts together a ranking of the world’s “top secrecy jurisdictions” in hopes of undermining tax competition, proponents of individual freedom can use that list as a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2950718 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:45:24 +0100 2950718 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2625965&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FdBrT21w6Mgw%2F Politicians exaggerate as a routine matter and have well-deserved reputations for stretching the truth. But when they repeatedly make assertions that they (or their aides) know to be false, they surely deserve to be criticized. That is the purpose of my new video. Entitled “President Obama’s Dishonest Demagoguery on So-Called Tax Havens,” the four-minute presentation looks at the two sound bites that the President uses to demonize low-tax jurisdictions. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2625965 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:20:48 +0100 2625965 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416802&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1c3gTc551gg%2F Steve Moore and Art Laffer have an excellent column in today’s Wall Street Journal. They explain that high-tax states drive repel entrepreneurs and investors, leading to a pronounced Laffer Curve effect. Productive people either leave the state or choose to earn and report less taxable income. And because growth is weaker than in low-tax states, there also is a negative impact on lower-income and middle-class people: Here’s the problem for states that want to pry more money out of the wallets of rich people. It never works because people, investment capital and businesses are mobile: They can leave tax-unfriendly states and move to tax-friendly states. …Updating some research from Richard Vedder of Ohio University, we found that from 1998 to 2007, more than 1,100 people ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416802 Mon, 18 May 2009 16:27:17 +0100 2416802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2255979&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fjup7QZk151M%2F The G-20 Summit in London on April 2 will feature politicians from around the world jockeying to promote bad ideas. Thankfully, there is a silver lining to this dark cloud since the United States and Europe do not agree on which bad idea deserves the most prominence. As the Wall Street Journal explains, the United States wants more nations to squander money of Keynesian-style schemes (see here to understand why bigger government is not stimulus). The Europeans, meanwhile, want to persecute tax havens and give the Keystone Cops at the IMF more money: The U.S. will press world leaders to boost emergency government spending to lift the global economy, risking a rift with European nations more concerned with revamping financial regulation. In President Barack Obama’s first foray into eco... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2255979 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:09 +0100 2255979 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2255980&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FX40wcbLrqVs%2F The Birmingham Star reports on how Switzerland, Austria, and Luxembourg are defending their human rights policies of protecting financial privacy: Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria are fighting attempts to put them on blacklist for being tax havens and over-secretive in banking rules. Luxembourg officials hosted discussions with the Swiss and Austrian finance ministers over the weekend, resulting in a demand for involvement in talks on the issue prior to the G20 summit next month. Luxembourg treasury officials said the small European group wanted to be involved in the debates about bank secrecy which were currently being discussed in meetings to which they did not belong, such as the G20. Equally important, the Czech Republic is standing up for the sovereign right of jurisdictions to hav... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2255980 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:46:45 +0100 2255980 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2255985&cid=t_153512_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FCiWVMJPAJ4g%2F A set of stories in International Tax Review today illustrate the backwards nature of U.S. corporate tax policy. The first story discusses the high-profile chest-thumping in Washington over corporate “tax haven abuse.” The congressional response to greater international tax competition is to load even more regulations on American businesses. The second story is entitled “Taiwan Slashes Corporate Tax Rate”: Taiwan’s government has approved plans to cut the country’s corporate tax rate from 25% to 20%. Ministers hope the cut will encourage investment in the country and stimulate growth in the economy… America is in the worst recession in decades and it desperately needs to cut its 40 percent corporate tax rate to reinvigorate business investment. Wh... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2255985 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:08:21 +0100 2255985 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1984966&cid=t_153512_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F5_OLxvYYeok%2F Connecticut’s Pilot Program For Autistic Adults which “adults of normal intelligence with diagnoses on what is called the autism spectrum” is in danger due to budget cuts. Today’s New Haven Register reports that Governor M. Jodi Rell has ordered all state government agencies to submit proposals that will cut up to 10 percent from their upcoming budgets. Prior to the program’s inception in 2006 (with $1 million from the state), no services were provided to autistic adults of normal intelligence (adults with diagnoses of both autism and mental retardation did receive services). The program received an additional $500,000 in July 2008 and is financed through June 2009. Currently, 52 people with autism and Asperger’s syndrome in in the greater New Haven and Hart... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1984966 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:43:37 +0100 1984966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1880154&cid=t_153512_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F420890783%2F The city of New Haven, Connecticut, which is the home of Yale University, says more than $400,000 in tax dollars were spent Vytorin and Zetia on for employees, and corporation counsel John Ward wants the money back. Why? Vytorin “doesn’t work,” he tells The New Haven Independent. The Vytorin cholesterol pill combines Zetia and Zocor. And so he has issued a request for proposal to hire an outside law firm to sue Merck and Schering-Plough, which are the subject of Congressional investigations into their handling of Vytorin clinical trial data that called into question the drug’s effectiveness (back stories here, here and here). Ward hopes to use the “no win, no pay” approach, which means the law firm that represents the city in a lawsuit would not receive any fee... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1880154 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:40:42 +0100 1880154 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1522256&cid=t_153512_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F16%2Fthe-green-piano%2F The cottage was simple, primitive by modern standards, but my memories of it are as warm as a favourite sweater. “Hillcrest” belonged to my Auntie Dot and Uncle Homer who owned and operated a cluster of weekly housekeeping cottages on Big Rideau Lake collectively known as “Homer’s Haven”.  There was the cottage over the boat-house, “Rideau”, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1522256 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:21:09 +0100 1522256 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1252826&cid=t_153512_150_f&fid=34768&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmagossip.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fmore-cameron-haven-sanofi-drug-rep-and.html Why, you ask?Well , dear readers, you seemed to like the last post so much. Insider saw a 50% increase in average blog traffic! So - Insider has selflessly undertaken some "internet research" and has come up with these:It would be rude to wake her!What a smile!Buns of steelAnyone for ice cream? (Source: PharmaGossip) PharmaGossip blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1252826 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:26:00 +0100 1252826 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1245061&cid=t_153512_150_f&fid=34768&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmagossip.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fpharmagossips-hottest-post-ever.html Say "Hi" to Cameron Haven - Sanofi drug rep and Playboy model way down in Florida. Warning! take care a workMuch, much more of Cameron doing her laundry can be seen here! Hat tip: Old School Repdigg story (Source: PharmaGossip) PharmaGossip blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1245061 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:31:00 +0100 1245061 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1165339&cid=t_153512_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F220286699%2F “We put a lot of energy into birth to 3 and somewhat through the teen years, but depending on when they graduate, they fall off the end of the earth.” “Why put resources, energy and money into them and then have nothing when we know that if our young adults are supported into the next stage, they are going to do OK.” So Lois Rosenwald, co-director of the Connecticut Autism Spectrum Resource Center says in the January 20th Hartford Courant about autistic adults. Rosenwald was instrumental in developing a $1million pilot program that was created by the Connecticut legislature a few years ago “to assist adults of normal intelligence with diagnoses on what is called the autism spectrum”; it is the first such program (according to the Hartford Courant). T... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1165339 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:02:10 +0100 1165339