It provides Americans from every corner of our country access to the first rate products and services that define our economy, increasing the productivity of our people and our land.

WHITEHOUSE: Kathy Caldwell

Brazil famously has a first-world rate of government spending but third-world public services.

ECONOMIST: Rethinking the welfare state

One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.

BBC: Obituary: Margaret Thatcher