10-27-2011, 10:01 PM
(10-27-2011, 07:43 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I would count Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Mexico as western industrialized nations, in the economic and political sense.
South Korea is still higher than the US. Hong Kong and Singapore don't count - City states run on different rules.
Mexico has about $9,000 GDP per capita (PPP). The US has $46,000 - five times as rich. If you think that's at a comparable level of industrialization, then all power to you - you found a single country with lower taxes. Doesn't change a thing, though.
Quote:And... Compared to low taxes, we are not the lowest. Compared to Denmark, we are a tax haven.
Absent an actual comparitor that doesn't sound silly, you've got "compared to low taxes"? Inventive comparison. But I stand my ground. If you can't name a country even close to the US' level of development with taxes that low, then you're the lowest. (The superlative is even irrelevant - "very low" is good enough.)
-Jester