In Saturday's Financial Times: The UK has the highest proportional property taxes in the world, at 3.35% GDP.
Oft complaining Canada comes in third, at 2.72%.
Oddly, the USA is second at 2.79%.
The Netherlands is way down at 0.86%, just a little more than Italy.
Austria is 0.24%.
And from the pages of the Yorkshire Post('Yorkshire's National Newspaper'), we have a column written by one Clare Beckett, a doctoral teacher of 'social policy' at Bradford University; she claims that 'Thatcher was the first woman prime minister in a Western Democracy.Ever'.
Were you to mention Golda Meier, Beckett would probably emit noises to the effect that Israel is not a Western Democracy but some sort of failed criminal state; so no surprises there, eh?
Needless to say that the subversion of reason is such that she can believe herself to be right when she is just spectacularly wrong.
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"Oft complaining Canada!"
You belittle us, sir. We are always complaining.
Sorry, Map.I didn't mean to imply that you shouldn't complain.
I meant to point out that despite Canadian complaints, Britain is actually worse and hardly anybody was aware of it until last week.
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