Clyde Slick a écrit :
"Lionel" wrote in message
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Arthur "Sackman" Tsechmeister a écrit :


"Lionel" wrote in message
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Arthur "Sackman" Tsechmeister a écrit :



"Lionel" wrote in message
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We are still waiting for you to tell us
how high taxes has created a wealthy, healthy, and
vibrant French nation!

No Arthur.
Intelligent persons interested in this discussion have already
consulted
http://www.oecd.org/
and have built their own POV based on solid facts and figures.




The very first item is summarized as thus:
"a new OECD study highlights the gains in prosperity that
could be achieved in developed countries by reducing
barriers to trade, investment and competition.

THAT PROVES MY POINT!

What was your point, Arthur ? ;-)



That yours is a stagnant and suffereing economy,
because of socialist barriers to growth,
like high taxes. That is a barrier to investment
and competition.


This is not what the statistics say.
You are a dunce Arthur.




2004, from CIA factbook

USA GDP 4.4% growth
France GDP 2.1% growth

I remember that you have written "stagnation". :-)

USA unemployment rate 5.5%
France unemployment rate 10.1 %

If the unemployment check was as tiny as the US one this number would
decrease dramaticaly... ;-)

USA 2.3% inflation
France 2.3% inflation


So what ?


USA debt 65 % of GDP
France debt 67.7% of GDP

So what ?


USA GDP per capita $40,100
France GDP per capita $28, 400

Poverty ?


BTW why are you comparing France with USA ? One can object that USA is a
very large country with a lot of natural resources, etc...
No, no it's too easy Arthur. IMHO you would be *really* more successful
in comparing my country with Switzerland, Luxembourg or Norway... :-D


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Nobody seemes to have actaully read what i wrote.
But what's new around here?

Dave Weil - Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:57:15 -0500