[tonupkid]

Imagine a world where all the nations got together and agreed a uniform and universally applied set of taxes.
Sounds great, sounds fair, sounds morally correct.

If this ever happened we'd be screwed, with taxes shooting up and up. An explosion of bureaucrats consuming ever more, while the dwindling number of productive people are taxed into oblivion.

Of course there are differences between national tax systems. And these differences are an opportunity used by those of wealth, to minimise the taxes they pay. Morally questionable I agree. But they and their schemes are the price we pay for some kind of tax competitiveness that keeps our respective governments in check.

If you don't believe how voracious government is, just look at the national debts. What they can't get in taxes they happily borrow at the expense of generations to come. Now that is what I call immoral.