How do we expect to grow?

This is an abstract taken from La Crónica newspaper, dated March 16th, 2009...

... but there's something we're not doing... I'm going back to the fact of how much the director of a company earns comparing with its lowest employee: in Spain, five to one; in the USA, nine to one; in Mexico, 52 to one... We've got too few people making a lot of money, and too many people making too little. But here's the worst:

What's the percentage of the GNP (Gross National Product) a country gets from taxes? The record goes to Finland, with a 52 per cent of revenue. Mexico has the nine per cent. What does this mean? It means Mexico does not have money to work with; for hospitals, for education... It doesn't matter Felipe Calderón wants things done, he has no money because of tax evasion..."


And it goes on. But the point is, how do we want the country to advance, and the government to do anything, if they don't have the resources to do so? And, even if they had, what guarantees that money will be put to good use and not just go into some politician's pockets?

If only there was something we could do...