... on the progressive tax and leftist support for a welfare state and focuses ratheron the contrast between “visible” and “invisible” taxes. Austria, Sweden,Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and ... introduced the VAT since the 1980s, Canada and Switzerland have had higher tax and spending thanexpected. Switzerland had long had the retailers’ sales tax and replacedit with the VAT in 1995. The ... Denmark, Finland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, and Australiadid not and were not expected to cope with the public intolerance of the tax burden caused by the extensive...