Tholos Foundation

Affiliated with Americans for Tax Reform, the Tholos Foundation conducts research and education on effective public policy from a free-market perspective.

[Tholos Foundation @tholos]

Affiliated with @taxreformer, Tholos is a 501(c)3 educational foundation originally founded in 1985 at the request of President Reagan. You can learn more about Tholos on our website (or by reading this thread). https://t.co/bL3sac1dB4

[lorenzo montanari @lorenzmontanari]

U.S. Dominates Wealth of Nations Index https://t.co/FDJu9WfqWw @tholos @FundacjaWEI @SebStodolak @Marta_Roels #USA #Poland #freemarket @GroverNorquist

[Tholos Foundation @tholos]

📝 Read the letter here:

https://t.co/f5IFWcF8YU

[Tholos Foundation @tholos]

The Tholos Foundation has signed a coalition letter alongside 18 organizations urging Treasury @SecScottBessent and US Trade Representative @jamiesongreer to take decisive and immediate action to eliminate discriminatory foreign Digital Services Taxes (DSTs) 👇

[Tholos Foundation @tholos]

Digital Services Taxes are instruments of economic nationalism designed to raid American innovation because American companies cannot vote in foreign elections.

The US must act with full force to defend American enterprise from this brazen assault on our economic sovereignty.

[Reem Ibrahim @ReemAmirIbrahim]

It’s not your job to “find” the UK’s first trilion-dollar firm.

If you want businesses to succeed in Britain, perhaps start by taxing less and removing the red tape that makes the business environment so hostile.

[Institute of Economic Affairs @iealondon]

📱 "This amounts to surveillance technology on every device in the country."

@matthewlesh warns the government's proposed device controls are a civil liberties disaster in disguise. 👇

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

“For many years we've been focusing our arguments on public health and consumer choice, where the argument is clearly on our side.

The evidence is so overwhelming that these products have the capacity to save hundreds of millions of lives across the world. This should be a policy no-brainer, and yet we see governments after governments after governments banning these products. It was a very depressing realization for me.”

- PDNW lead spokesman @Tim_Andrews at #GFN26

[Adam Smith Institute @ASI]

Today is Tax Freedom Day!

Up until June 5th, every penny the average Brit earned went straight to the taxman. From today (June 6th), you are finally earning for yourself!

Under our improved methodology, this is the latest Tax Freedom Day ever recorded. 👇

[Institute of Economic Affairs @iealondon]

🌱"If you are raising taxes, yes you get some immediate revenue — but you are eating the seed corn.”

@DanielJHannan on why tax hikes always backfire 👇

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

“In Australia, in Brazil, in the Netherlands, in Germany, everywhere prohibition has been tried it has led to failure.”

- PDNW lead spokesman @Tim_Andrews at #GFN26

In Brazil almost 3 million people still vape despite it being illegal, including 8.7% of Brazilian teens.

Why? Because illicit markets do not check ID. They do not enforce age verification, follow safety standards, or provide any of the checks and balances that exist in a properly regulated market.

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

PDNW lead spokesman @Tim_Andrews explains how our campaign uses the evidence to show this is not just a public health argument, there is an economic cost as well:

“A proper regulated market will lead to better public health and public safety, because prohibition doesn't eliminate demand. It simply shifts it to the black market.”

#GFN26

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

📑 Read @SincDavidson’s report - When Regulation Becomes Prohibition: Black Markets, Enforcement Failure, and Vape Restrictions - to learn how restrictive vape policies across the world not only prove that prohibition doesn’t work, but also comes with huge costs.

https://t.co/vTec4a36Rv

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

PDNW lead spokesman @Tim_Andrews will be launching @SincDavidson’s new report on the economic cost of prohibition and how vape bans hand markets to criminals at #GFN26 👇

⏰ WATCH NOW (9:30am CEST).

See below for the link to the livestream and to read our report 📑

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

Michael is a widely recognised expert on international illicit trade. He has been engaged in global illicit trade enforcement, investigations, capacity building and training efforts since 1996 and is a former Assistant Director of Police Services at INTERPOL. He was Head of INTERPOL’s Traffic in Illicit Goods and Counterfeit Programme, where his core responsibilities included managing and coordinating INTERPOL’s global strategy to fight illicit trade and counterfeiting, and leading the organisation’s international efforts in this area.

#GFN26

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

Michael Ellis explains why Prohibition Does Not Work at #GFN26 👇

Prohibition does not affect demand. It affects who supplies it.

Banning safer products pushes consumers towards black markets where criminals control quality, safety and access.

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

🇵🇱 PDNW Principal Global Advisor on Illicit Trade & Organised Crime Michael Ellis will be speaking at 2pm CEST at @GFNicotine in Warsaw on Tobacco Harm Reduction and Illicit Trade #GFN26

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

Michael is a widely recognised expert on international illicit trade. He has been engaged in global illicit trade enforcement, investigations, capacity building and training efforts since 1996 and is a former Assistant Director of Police Services at INTERPOL. He was Head of INTERPOL’s Traffic in Illicit Goods and Counterfeit Programme, where his core responsibilities included managing and coordinating INTERPOL’s global strategy to fight illicit trade and counterfeiting, and leading the organisation’s international efforts in this area.

#GFN26

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

Our Principal Global Advisor on Illicit Trade & Organised Crime Michael Ellis is speaking on a panel in Warsaw to explain how bans on smoke-free products fuel illicit markets and the wider risks of criminal organisations entering the THR supply chain

#GFN26

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

“Black markets for e-cigarettes are not victimless. Illicit economies fuel corruption, violence, chaos, and organised crime, and the profits generated by illicit trade often finance a much wider range of criminal activity.”

- Michael Ellis at #GFN26