During a recent visit to Pakistan, Barack Obama's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a stunning economics lecture to a group of Pakistani businessmen.
"At the risk of sounding undiplomatic, Pakistan has to have internal investment in your public services and your business opportunities ... The percentage of taxes on GDP [gross domestic product] is among the lowest in the world ... We [the United States] tax everything that moves and doesn't move, and that's not what we see in Pakistan ... You do have 180 million people. Your population is projected to be about 300 million. And I don't know what you're gonna do with that kind of challenge, unless you start planning right now."Yes, she just told the Pakistanis that they have too much economic freedom. This is nothing new for Clinton, who once warned American entrepreneurs, "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." It's in keeping with her political writings, which have emphasized that the state must work for the community at the expense of individual liberty, particularly on issues of education.
Barack Obama should be thrilled. Having run up an enormous deficit with his domestic spending and presided over a federal government that takes 22% of the average American's income away in taxation, his ideas are now being exported to other countries.
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