Federalism...............Just about Quebec?
BeaverBill @ Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:25 am
another tax table, under 4.13 - Central Gov't Revenues.
http://devdata.worldbank.org/wdi2005/Section4.htm.
BeaverBill @ Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:00 am
http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,2340, ... 27,00.html
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In 2004, the OECD publication reveals, Sweden once again had the highest tax-to-GDP ratio among OECD countries, at 50.7% against 50.6% in 2003. Denmark came next at 49.6% (48.3%), followed by Belgium at 45.6% (45.4%). At the other end of the scale, Mexico had the lowest tax-to-GDP ratio, at 18.5%, against 19.0% in 2003. Korea had the second lowest, at 24.6% (25.3%), and the United States had the third, at 25.4% (25.6%) (See Table 2).
The ratio of total tax revenues to gross domestic product at market prices is a widely used measure of the extent of state involvement in national economies. Countries with high tax-to-GDP ratios tend to pay more from the public purse for services that citizens would have to pay for themselves - or do without - in lower-taxed countries. However, comparisons are not always easy to make: for example, many countries with high tax-to-GDP ratios provide family benefits as cash payments rather than as tax reductions, increasing the apparent tax burden as measured by the tax-to-GDP ratio.
The ratio of total tax revenues to gross domestic product at market prices is a widely used measure of the extent of state involvement in national economies. Countries with high tax-to-GDP ratios tend to pay more from the public purse for services that citizens would have to pay for themselves - or do without - in lower-taxed countries. However, comparisons are not always easy to make: for example, many countries with high tax-to-GDP ratios provide family benefits as cash payments rather than as tax reductions, increasing the apparent tax burden as measured by the tax-to-GDP ratio.
Numure @ Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:43 am
The problem in the US, is that to have an equal or somewhat representative view of the ''ensemble'', you have to add Education Costs and Health Care costs to their tax burden. Once does are added, we can compare them to Canada's taxe burden. We pay for HEalth Care and education threw taxes, collectively. And over all, Education and HealthCare end up costing us MUCH MUCH less then it does in the US.
VicVega @ Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:14 pm
Numure Numure:
The problem in the US, is that to have an equal or somewhat representative view of the ''ensemble'', you have to add Education Costs and Health Care costs to their tax burden. Once does are added, we can compare them to Canada's taxe burden. We pay for HEalth Care and education threw taxes, collectively. And over all, Education and HealthCare end up costing us MUCH MUCH less then it does in the US.
Im not sure what blessed part of the country you live in, but out here, as with many parts of the country, I pay $88.00 a month in health care premiums, and still wait in long lines at the emergency room when Im having an asthma attack becaue my blood oxygen is only hovering near a potentialy deadly level and hasnt crossed into it yet. Recently here in this city alone there were 3 miscarages in the waiting rooms of hospitals. So by paying for health care we are not seeing a higher standard under our public system. And schooling costs here are still high. The fact that parents must shell out hundreds of dollars a year for school fees, at every level, says that it's not free either. Combine those stats and tell me if were still close.