Monday, January 28, 2013

COMPARING ESTONIA AND BRITAIN

From the National Review.  Estonia is booming and Britain is not and there are graphs to show how each tackled their economic problems.  Unfortunately the U.S. seems to be following the path of Britain.

The British government’s austerity policy has entailed increasing taxes from the pre-austerity level, while continuing to increase government spending, too. Meanwhile, Estonia has tried to close its budget gap by defining austerity as cutting government largesse. U.K. politicians seem to believe that austerity applies only to the private sector, while their Estonian counterparts believe it applies to both firms and state

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