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Greek citizens are the richest in the world and the nation of Greece does quite a good job in collecting taxes from its citizen. Only Chile, Serbia and the USA collect more taxes per citizen than Greece but the Greek compensate for that issue by simply spending the most money on the market. "Every Greek citizen spends about 3700cc on the market each week." says Åke S. from the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Politics. "They are followed by their Slovenian and Taiwanese colleagues and our old Asgard allies from Finland are still spending around 3000cc per week on the market making them the fourth wealthiest nation on earth."



According to Jens S. from the Norwegian Economic Institute, the tax data of all countries has been collected. The tax income has then been corrected for occupied and conquered regions. "We calculated what amount of taxes a nation would collect, if they were in possession of all their core territories and nothing more. Setting that income in relation to the population and the tax percentage then gives you the amount of money each citizen spends on the market each day. As we have no clear data on how work taxes and value added taxes interact with each other, we simply took the mean value of both."


As for Norway things are looking rather bad. "The Norwegian citizen are not spending enough money on the market." explains Åke S. "We don't know why, but we assume that Norwegian citizen changed from a capitalistic economy to self-sustainability. Basically everybody is producing his own stuff. Nobody needs to buy something and if you need something your neighbor will help you out with some donation." Even though most Norwegian citizen are rather wealthy their average spending is around 400cc per week, which makes them rank worse than countries as Montenegro and New Zealand. Even the Danish are spending more money on the market and this is a nation which has been dissolved ages ago. In the wake of the current results we can no longer consider Norway to be a third world nation - Norway is some indigenous population as the Inuit who are more or less independent but under Canadian administration if you want."

"Sweden seems to be the role model of a low tax haven" adds Jens S. from the Norwegian Economic Institute "They have incredibly low taxes, yet their citizen are spending almost twice as much as the average human being. If I was the Swedish government I'd think about initiatives to let them spend even more money. Sweden could easily generate as much wealth as Finland or Greece."



A further interesting result of this research is the impact of tax percentages to the amount of money spent: There is no clear correlation between the amount of money which is spent on the market and the levels of the taxes. "All the tax percentages are doing is to set your income" says Åke S. "the lower the taxes the less you gain - which is somehow obvious". The United States have been reasons to arguments time and again: Wouldn't high work taxes destroy the economy? "Obviously they don't. Prices and citizen expenses are comparable to other nations of the same size." says Jens S. "That means the producers are working with a lower gain, but somehow they manage to survive. Partially this might be connected to the higher productivity of the companies in the US compared to say Norway."


The full report of the Norwegian Institute for Foreign Politics can be accessed here http://www.docdroid.net/qtar/blahblah.pdf.html