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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (33840)	3/9/2009 12:21:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Semantics Yes, but semantics can be important. What you call a thing affects impressions of it. And mislabeling something can create confusion or false impressions. There is most likely a minimum effective government below which the lack of predictability becomes a drag on the economy. Different economies are different sizes, and have different per capita wealth, and different countries face different circumstances, so it would be a variable amount, but it would almost always be far below 21 percent, the main exceptions being a very large and serious war (like WWII, not Iraq)