Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 7, 2009

In recent years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has mounted campaigns against so-called ?tax havens? and ?unfair tax competition? in the effort to discourage member states from reducing tax burdens on the productive.

The OECD?s membership includes the self-described socialist nations of Scandinavia, as well as the members of the socialist European Union.

It would be expected that the USA would have the least oppressive national tax policy. But we actually rank 19th out of the 30 OECD member nations, according to French economist Pierre Bessard. The USA is tied with the socialist United Kingdom and finishes well behind such socialist-leaning countries as Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

The framers of our Constitution understood that economic competition among the states would have the effect of reducing government?s share of the economy. Now our increasingly socialist government is leading the charge to punish nations that act on the insights of our own Founding Fathers.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.