I am letting your spelling and grammatical errors go, as well as your latent anti-American rants. Be well.

>>>Mike,
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>>>>From a personal POV, sure. But England had to adapt to financial reality. With a tax rate that high it was impossible to remain competitive in a global market. Some of the Scandinavian countries still haven't quite figured that out, and become more and more marginalized in the world economy.
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>>>I think you'd better look twice at those scandanavian countries before making such remark. They have the best economies in europe and generally are labeled as the best places in the world to live in. They are pretty wealthy countries.
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>>>About marginalisation, Well, the scandanavian countries are not heavely populated, so by that definition they will never be an economical power. They simply don't have to.
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>>>We all know that simple work is going to be outsources to india and china in where taxes are low. The western world has to focus on what they do best: Innovating, driving businesses, financial, research, etc.
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>>>Time will tell, but my stance is that the high tax rates are better for a nation in the long term.
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>>"The best economies in Europe" -- even if true, that's a pretty slim accomplishment, isn't it?
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>Have you have ever looked outside the US box? The European economy is larger than the US one, so yes it is a major achievement of the scandanavia countries. These kind of remarks is exactly why I'm that critical against american optimism and plain ignorance.
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>http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Nordic+countries+and+East+Asian+tigers+top+the+rankings+in+the+World+Economic+Forum's+2005+competitiveness+rankings
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>Finland for example outranks the US on competiveness. Shortly followed by the other scandanavian countries.
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>http://www.export.gov/comm_svc/press_room/marketofthemonth/nordic/nordic.html
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>>That Euro-centric view of the world just never seems to go away. Economically, the world has moved on.
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>Economically scandanavia is eclipsing the US, believe it or not. Those countries are the most civilised and developped countries of the world by almost every measure, and to the contrary of the US, it economy is NOT build on other peoples money.
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>>If you want to claim it is one of the best places in the world to live, economics aside, that is your right, but personally I wouldn't want to live on a bus driver's income.
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>Again, you should check your facts. according to the link below norway has a better GDP per capita than the US. This aside from the fact that scandavian countries are well known for their effective governments and wisely spending tax money. Healthcare for everyone and excellent child care for parents.
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>http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
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>Further the scandanavian countries score the highest on the scale of "Quality of life"
>http://www.aneki.com/quality.html
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>So, I'm not sure what you mean by the world moved on, but this well could apply to the US, esspecially if the world wide faith in the economy of the US drops because the huge debt of the governement.
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>Walter,