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"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."

So, despite the fact that we are getting poorer, our poverty is going away? Sure that makes sense... in socialist appeasing fairy land. You know regulations in Canada cost us 22 billion a year alone? And that figure is from a government beaurocracy... so who knows what the real figure is.

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You seem to fail to realize that GDP/c, although likely correlated with poverty, isnt, itself, a measure of poverty.
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Strictly speaking, I do not believe poverty exists in Canada.

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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.
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Not really. It's based on the false assumption that anyone who makes less than $10,000 a year is in poverty. Poverty is not having any food and money; it's not taking the bus instead of having your own car.

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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. "

Hurting the rich != helping the poor, empirical evidance is all bunk and if the government wanted to transfer wealth to the poor, instead of to themselves, there'd be a negative income tax instead of a welfare state.

Instead of attempting to attract business through genuine opportunities (by lowering tax cuts and getting rid of regulations), the premier of my province gave away 500 million dollars to car companies so they'd build a few plants in my province. Does this spending help the poor? Not really, any of the benefits from the "jobs created" are of course tragically outweighed by the fact our government STOLE 500 million dollars to "create" these jobs. Higher taxes equals more money wasted, it's got no appreciable benefit on the poor; rather the poor often end up bearing the burden of increased spending through higher unemployment, less buying power for their wages and fewer choices in terms of employment.