Police had believed that the recruitment message was the work of a hoaxer. Times, Sunday Times (2013) But it is now thought hoaxers photographed a toy in a field and posted the picture online. The Sun (2014) Anyone expecting the story of a compulsive hoaxer to be funny will quickly realise their mistake. Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Fiscal reform under way in the United States will have an impact on the Mexican economy, above all because Mexico has little room to adjust its own tax rates, the head of a United Nations economic commission said yesterday.
Those programs, like progressive taxes, reduce inequality relative to what it would be without them. But some reduce it more than others. And even though the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world, its overall tax and transfer system reduces inequality less than those in peer countries do: The most redistributionist countries on the planet tend not to be those with really progressive taxes.