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“Based on the concentration coefficient of household taxes, the United States has the most progressive tax system and collects the largest share of taxes from the richest 10% of the population. However, the richest decile in the United States has one of the highest shares of market income of any OECD country. After standardising for this underlying inequality, Ireland has the most progressive tax system as measured by the ratio of the concentration coefficients of household taxes and market income, while Australia and United States collect the most tax from people in the top decile relative to the share of market income that they earn.” — forrás: Growing Unequel? - Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, 2008
“In other words, the poorest members of society earn about the same percentage of a nation’s income regardless of economic freedom. Free or unfree, they’re unlikely to get much more than an average of 2.5 percent of that income. In other words, they can expect to get about 2.5 percent of the economic pie — regardless of the pie’s size.”
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“Once the logic of ‘each man for himself’ takes hold, can we really trust everyone to act communitarian and resist the temptation to settle scores in other areas, such as trade? Would you really bet the house on the proposition that if the Euro zone breaks up, the single market, the cornerstone of the European Union, will definitely survive?”
