Interesting to see that the United States is 14th on the list. After being able to use the graphs in the Tanzi reading as a reference, it is nice to see the current data with both income tax and employee social security. I am surprised to see that India is ranked higher than Sweden. I was expecting Sweden to be higher on the list and India to be lower.
I thought the same as Bianca, It was interesting to see the effect of the conservative backlash in Sweden. There is still not any employee social security, indicating that the government still has control over many of the insurance programs. I am confused on the way the graph was derived and think it could be heavily misleading as a result. "On a gross income of 100,000" means to me that this graph is somehow constrained to those making around 100,000 dollars. Now when you look at India, hundreds of millions of people don't come close to that level of income, so then are we seeing only a slice of the population then?
Its really sad to see Greece and Italy are one the highest tax payers. With shrinking economy, the public is compensating for weak government policies. With rising corruption in Greece, more and more rich people are being dishonest about the tax, it is the middle class and poor people who are being troubled.
Interesting to see that the United States is 14th on the list. After being able to use the graphs in the Tanzi reading as a reference, it is nice to see the current data with both income tax and employee social security. I am surprised to see that India is ranked higher than Sweden. I was expecting Sweden to be higher on the list and India to be lower.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same as Bianca, It was interesting to see the effect of the conservative backlash in Sweden. There is still not any employee social security, indicating that the government still has control over many of the insurance programs. I am confused on the way the graph was derived and think it could be heavily misleading as a result. "On a gross income of 100,000" means to me that this graph is somehow constrained to those making around 100,000 dollars. Now when you look at India, hundreds of millions of people don't come close to that level of income, so then are we seeing only a slice of the population then?
ReplyDeleteIts really sad to see Greece and Italy are one the highest tax payers. With shrinking economy, the public is compensating for weak government policies. With rising corruption in Greece, more and more rich people are being dishonest about the tax, it is the middle class and poor people who are being troubled.
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