  Corporate taxation  Wake up and smell the coffee  Starbucks’s
tax troubles are a sign of things to come for multinationals
See article  Readers' comments    It is hard to compare the
effectiveness of taxation between these two countries (U.K. and
U.S._ considering the big differences of what is offered by each
nation to its citizens. In other words, how can a country that
offers almost no health coverage to the population be considered
a good example? (I'm not talking about U.K.)  Low rates of
taxation are not synonym of effectiveness. And it gets even
worse if we bring issues like the military budget, overall
insecurity (considering developed countries numbers), subsidies,
bailouts, etc.  Raising tax levels can indeed be nearly
impossible in a democracy where the population of voters is
already used to paying such rates - despite a few exceptions
among wealth people like Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan...
meaning that this is probably not an option for campaiging if
you seek election.  So we have a populati