The Bad Kind of American Exceptionalism

Nick Schulz, at the Enterprise Blog:

There’s a frequent refrain on the left (and in some circles on the right) that the W. years were too friendly to business. I don’t want to defend the 2000s (the music was awful!)…

Hey. It wasn’t all awful.

…but it’s interesting to see what happened to corporate taxation in the United States under Bush II and compare it with what was going on everywhere else.

Here’s what he means:

Stupid George Bush, anyway. This is all his fault! Why can’t we just be more like Europe?