Most Canadian taxpayers could complete their personal tax returns in about five minutes using a postcard-size form if Canada adopted a 15 per cent flat tax, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
According to Alvin Rabushka, an internationally renowned expert on tax reform with the Hoover Institution:
Canadians
In recent weeks alone, some of the unlikeliest political leaders have endorsed tax rate cuts in the name of making their economies better, says the Wall Street Journal.
Old socialist-leaning countries like France and Germany and Spain are cutting rates because of the tax competition from Ireland and Eastern Europe:
There
Most of France’s electricity has been generated by nuclear power for years, and now Great Britain is again looking to atomic energy. So why can’t the US increase nuclear output? The answer is, of course, irrational opposition by environmentalists, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD).
Consider:
Britain gets about 19 per
Weaning the long-term ill off welfare and into the workforce has long been an intractable problem in the United Kingdom, notes the Financial Times. It has its roots in the decline of the U.K. industrial base and coal mining communities, where doctors were tacitly encouraged to classify the out of
French and German schools have helped ingrain a serious aversion to the market economy, says Stefan Theil, Newsweek’s European economics editor.
Consider France:
In a widely used high school text, a section on innovation does not mention any entrepreneur or company; instead, students read a treatise on whether technological progress destroys
