{"id":31440,"date":"2016-12-14T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31440"},"modified":"2016-12-04T10:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T15:25:22","slug":"qotd-fill-in-the-blank-oecd-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/qotd-fill-in-the-blank-oecd-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Fill-in-the-blank OECD fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When writing about the <a href=\"https:\/\/danieljmitchell.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/10\/in-another-episode-of-economic-malpractice-the-oecd-claims-higher-taxes-and-more-redistribution-will-boost-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development<\/a>, an international bureaucracy based in Paris, my life would be simpler if I created some sort of automatic fill-in-the-blanks system.<\/p>\n<p>Something like this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>The OECD, subsidized by $____ million from American taxpayers, has just produced a new _________ that advocates more power for governments over the _________ sector of the economy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But this may not be sufficiently descriptive.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe I should create a multiple choice exercise. Sort of like when students take tests and get asked to circle the most appropriate answer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>The bureaucrats at the Paris-based OECD, working in cooperation with <strong>union bosses\/class-warfare advocates\/other tax-free international bureaucrats\/politicians<\/strong>, have released a new <strong>report\/study\/paper<\/strong> urging more <strong>power\/control\/authority<\/strong> for governments in order to increase <strong>regulation\/taxes\/spending\/redistribution\/intervention<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may think I\u2019m trying to be funny, but this is totally serious.<\/p>\n<p>How else would you describe a bureaucracy that consorts and cooperates with leftist groups like Occupy Wall Street and the AFL-CIO and routinely published propaganda in favor of Obama\u2019s agenda on issues such as global warming, government-run healthcare, so-called stimulus, and class-warfare taxation.<\/p>\n<p>And never forget that American taxpayers finance the biggest chunk of this bureaucracy\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Adding insult to injury, the bureaucrats at the OECD get tax-free salaries, which makes their relentless support for higher taxes on the rest of us even more obnoxious.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Mitchell, <a href=\"https:\/\/danieljmitchell.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/12\/more-statist-propaganda-from-the-taxpayer-funded-oecd\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;More Statist Propaganda from the Taxpayer-Funded OECD&#8221;, <em>International Liberty<\/em><\/a>, 2015-04-12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When writing about the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international bureaucracy based in Paris, my life would be simpler if I created some sort of automatic fill-in-the-blanks system. 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