MrGautama
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After reading in this forum the never ending story about how evil taxes are and see the now famous gospel "can't tax yourself into prosperity" as the prevalent dogma, I received an unexpected breath of fresh air; after a few days of throwing buckets of data and thoughts back and forth between Greg and I (which was fun, was as good for you as it was for me? 
) out of the blue comes Dave and with an open mind and asks for just one example where taxes and prosperity are in some way interconnected, just one country and he would be willing to consider the idea as plausible.
Well Dave, an open mind is the mark of a great man. I might not convince you but at least you are willing to look into it and that alone deserves my respect. So here we go:
The Human Development Index combines normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide. It is claimed as a standard means of measuring human development—a concept that, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), refers to the process of widening the options of persons, giving them greater opportunities for education, health care, income, employment, etc. The basic use of HDI is to measure a country's development.
Source: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) "groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to the market economy. The OECD plays a prominent role in fostering governance in corporate activity. It helps governments to ensure the responsiveness of key economic areas with sectoral monitoring. By deciphering emerging issues and identifying policies that work, it helps policy-makers adopt strategic orientations."
In the first part are the 15 most developed countries in the world, in green the top 3.
In the second part are this same countries from most to least taxed, in red the 3 with higher taxes.
I can give you not 1 but 13 instances in which higher taxes not only don't interfere with the development of a society but correlate in grand measure with its prosperity. It is remarkable that only one of the countries (Japan) that have a superior development than us pays lower taxes and the other 13 have a higher rate.
It is not rocket science, just have to look for it with... an open mind.
) out of the blue comes Dave and with an open mind and asks for just one example where taxes and prosperity are in some way interconnected, just one country and he would be willing to consider the idea as plausible.Well Dave, an open mind is the mark of a great man. I might not convince you but at least you are willing to look into it and that alone deserves my respect. So here we go:
The Human Development Index combines normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide. It is claimed as a standard means of measuring human development—a concept that, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), refers to the process of widening the options of persons, giving them greater opportunities for education, health care, income, employment, etc. The basic use of HDI is to measure a country's development.
Source: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) "groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to the market economy. The OECD plays a prominent role in fostering governance in corporate activity. It helps governments to ensure the responsiveness of key economic areas with sectoral monitoring. By deciphering emerging issues and identifying policies that work, it helps policy-makers adopt strategic orientations."
In the first part are the 15 most developed countries in the world, in green the top 3.
In the second part are this same countries from most to least taxed, in red the 3 with higher taxes.
I can give you not 1 but 13 instances in which higher taxes not only don't interfere with the development of a society but correlate in grand measure with its prosperity. It is remarkable that only one of the countries (Japan) that have a superior development than us pays lower taxes and the other 13 have a higher rate.
It is not rocket science, just have to look for it with... an open mind.
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