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Better Than Britain?

July 2026
1min read


Professor Joseph Nye’s answers about America’s future are just accurate enough to be dangerous. To him America is a “rich country that acts poor.” His “low” 31 percent tax rate does not include all the property, sales, dual and hidden fuel and corporate taxes, as well as larger state and local governments than exist in other countries. He’s been on the rich-institution dole too long. It’s tough out in the real America.

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