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by jbellis 5895 days ago
"Index of Economic Freedom." http://www.heritage.org/index/

Methodology is explained in detail on the site.
3 comments
arohner 5895 days ago
I don't think the calculation for "economic freedom" works the same for HN-ers. All of the places above the US have either significant political problems (China, Singapore) or are much worse for startups.

I would gladly move out of the US, if there was someplace significantly better. There isn't right now.

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xenophanes 5895 days ago
8th place isn't so bad. Doesn't seem worth emigrating over, for most people.
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fnid2 5894 days ago
The trend is negative, so it's only a matter of time.
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icey 5895 days ago
It's odd to see so many countries rank higher than us that are normally thought of as having significantly higher taxes than us.

(Fair amount of "socialist" in that list, too)

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jbellis 5894 days ago
Partly that's because while US personal taxes are middle-of-the-pack-ish, their corporate tax rate of 35% is behind only Japan: http://alhambrainvestments.com/blog/2009/01/29/corporate-tax...

(And partly it's because there's a lot more that goes into the ranking than just tax rate.)

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lutorm 5894 days ago
Maybe economic freedom has nothing to do with how much taxes you pay...
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anamax 5894 days ago
Americans don't pay less in taxes, they just get less services.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/03/taxes-per-person.html

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