Treaty Power
WHO Treaty Panic Propaganda and a Real Solution
Panic propaganda is a political tool designed to elicit an emotional response rather than a reasoned and factual one. Panic propaganda doesn’t have to be completely false, as a matter of fact, the best propaganda contains a very serious element of truth that is...
The Constitution and the Minimum Corporate Tax Agreement (Part 2)
This is my second post looking at the constitutional aspects of the recently announced international agreement on a global minimum corporate tax (the first post is here). The first post concluded that the “agreement” in its current form (actually labeled...
The Constitution and the Minimum Corporate Tax Agreement
Earlier I posted (here and here) some general thoughts about the idea of a global minimum corporate tax. Some objections have been raised to its constitutionality (see here from the Wall Street Journal editors). Having taken a closer look at the agreement (such as...
The President and Withdrawal from Treaties
Last week the United States withdrew from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Agreement with Russia, pursuant to the Treaty’s six-month notification period for withdrawal (the notification was sent in February). The President directed the notification...