Tag: OECD
I was trying to figure out what made French workers put on their yellow vests. The action-forcing event appears to have been a proposed hike in gasoline and diesel taxes. Are the French overburdened with taxes? Figure 1 presents the ranking of countries by total taxes as a percentage of GDP. These data, from t…
Two recent developments that I have found both annoying and dangerous are the deletion of replacement rate information from the annual Social Security Trustees Report and the coordinated campaign in the press arguing that the elderly have plenty of money. Hence, I was delighted to see a chart in the most recent edition of t…