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"I think you're wrong, Spain and Finland are both very decentralized"Finland is not decentralized (at least their tax collection is not), Spain is, but Spain is one of those exceptions where there is a strong decentralization to avoid civil war. Most other countries are nothing like that, and in the case of India I don't think you can speak of a "local" level when states have a bigger population than most countries (three of them have more than 100 million inhabitants each).

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I think you're wrong, Spain and Finland are both very decentralized. Scott Sumner's conclusion from his pre-recession research on the "Great Danes" is that their systems work in part because taxes stay with localities, and then of course Switzerland as one of the most decentralized countries in the world.

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