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(1) There are too many confounding variables to draw that conclusion from that data. (2) Raise your taxes by 30%, do you have more money or less? Less. And the
by Number157 6y ago
(1) There are too many confounding variables to draw that conclusion from that data.
(2) Raise your taxes by 30%, do you have more money or less? Less. And the government has more.
Clearly there are more factors, but there would be no way for the government to keep its spending up without borrowing, without getting money in the form of taxes.
- bildung 6y ago1: Suddenly there are confounding factors? Why didn't that stop you from claiming the correlation in the first place? 2: This isn't how taxes work. High-tax countries essentially do collective purchases with that money, which usually means lower cost per individual for services like education, healthcare, pensions and so on.