United Nations report on the US

[Teeqoz]

numberwang said:

Teeqoz said:

Federal taxes in the US have genreally been decreasing, while inequality has generally been increasing. This sort of shoots a hole in your theory that taxes are the source of this inequality. Not to mention that the developed countries with the most social mobility are countries with high taxes and large governments, like Denmark, Canada, Norway and Finland.

Oranges and apples. Homogeneous countries have homogeneous outcomes, diverse countries have diverse outcomes.

It does, together with the aforementioned fact that taxes in the US have been on a long term downward trend while inequality has been increasing, disprove his hypothesis that taxes and large governments leads to current American conditions.