I upvoted you [after the red brigade had had a pass :) ] because you raise an important point: imagine what the tax rates would be if politicians - armed with a

I upvoted you [after the red brigade had had a pass :) ] because you raise an important point: imagine what the tax rates would be if politicians - armed with a police force and judiciary - knew that no other nation could complete by offering lower tax rates? The corrupt bolsheviks where I live would ratchet it up to 95% in a few years. As would everyone else's government.