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Board Politics & Society
Re: Why are people scared of taxes?
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bb113
on 06/10/2012, 20:05:08 UTC
Low income tax rates have a strong correlation with wealth-inequality within societies. Wealth-inequality in turn correlates positively with violence, low life-expectancy, infant-mortality, obesity,...


I had more about abusing data like this but just suffice to say this is a very poor argument. Once data abuse is treated like animal abuse our society will be getting somewhere. At that point it may even be possible for a government to spend tax money wisely rather than on wars and manipulating the economy.