A Snag in Billary’s Brazilian Utopia
Sunday 30 May 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery
Daniel J. Mitchell via The Cato Institute:
Contrary to her direct quote, Brazil does not have the “highest tax-to-GDP rate in the Western Hemisphere.” It may have the highest tax burden in South America. And it may even have the highest tax burden in all of Latin America, but its overall tax burden of about 24 percent of GDP is slightly below the aggregate tax burden in the United States.
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So Secretary Clinton either was unaware that the United States and Canada are in the Western Hemisphere, or has no clue how to read fiscal statistics.
To those two options, ignorance or stupidity, I would add purposeful obfuscation, and rank it as the most likely of the three.
2010-05-30 » madlibertarianguy