Vitaliy wrote:

> US tax rates are much lower than most other countries', IIRC even Bill Gates 
> is only paying something like 37% (the maximum rate).

From
http://www.greaterzuricharea.ch/content/05/downloads/oecd_tax_revenue2003.pdf
(tax revenue as percentage of GDP, in 2003):

USA 25%
NZ 35%
UK 35%
Germany 36%
Sweden 51%

> My economics professor told a story about his Swedish grandmother, who
> wrote a best-selling book on knitting. She got 1% of the profit
> (amazingly, she thought it was fair).

IMO it's not that much about how much taxes, it's more about what is being
done with the taxes. The raw numbers don't say anything about the benefit
the population has from paying the taxes.

Gerhard

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