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Article: Halting French economic thrust.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2004
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Byline: Richard W. Rahn, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Are you aware of the ongoing world war between a French-led high tax alliance and the United States and its free market allies?
France and its statist allies have been losing the war for economic supremacy to the lower-tax developing and developed countries, like the United States. The French are well aware that their economy and those of other statist European countries perform relatively poorly because they are noncompetitive with lower-tax-burden countries. Rather than correctly cut their own taxes and government spending, they actively try to force others to raise taxes so they might also have ...