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I'm not sure about your statistics
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http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/8/4/37504406.pdf
http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/statisti...ents/hpi_2.pdf
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Since the aggressive institution of the welfare state, per capita incomes have decreased rapidly.
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I dont think you quite understand what poverty is.
The facts provided showed that that taxation seems to lessen a nations Poverty Index (the formula for which can be found at its Wiki entry), and the counter argument you presents deals with GDP.
You seem to fail to realize that GDP/c, although likely correlated with poverty, isnt, itself, a measure of poverty.
For example, imagine a country of 1 million people, half of whom earn in excess of $250,000 USD per year while the other half earns less than $10,000 USD. This country has an enormous GDP/c, yet still suffers severe poverty problems.
I would not agrue that increased taxation hinders GDP/c, since I agree it does. But your claim was that increased taxation didnt help the poor, which I disagree with, and have presented emperical evidence to backup, and to which you've not yet responded with an on topic retort.