<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:20 PM Dylan Distasio <</span><a href="mailto:interzone@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">interzone@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>The situation in the 50s was a lot more complicated than what the Berners use as talking points in terms of effective tax rates:</i><div><br></div><div><a href="https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/" target="_blank">https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I grant you that in the 50s there were even more tax doges than there are now but let's look at Norway. Today with not just income taxes but value added taxes 54.8% of Norway's GDP goes to taxes verses only 26% for the USA;</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-revenue.htm#indicator-chart" target="_blank">Government revenue as a percent of GDP </a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">And yet Norwegians are nearly twice as rich as Americans, the Gross National Income per person in Norway is $103,630 but in the USA it's only $55,200. Norwegians live longer and are much richer than Americans despite (or perhaps because of) being taxed higher.</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-highest-incomes-in-the-world.html" target="_blank">Gross National income per person </a><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And it's not just Norway, similar situations exist in Denmark Sweden Luxembourg and Australia.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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