Why are people poor?

[Trotz]

Avro,
are you really confident about your statement? It's not the amount of taxation in those countries but rather the economies which define them. Norway will always do fine; regardless of the individual taxation, because of the oil. Sweden; much like Canada minus the oil, could just start chopping trees and mine more ore if the economy began to slow down.

 

[darkbeaver]

There is no 'target' group... Once the economy goes, the tax revenues fall in line with the lower GDP... Fewer taxes mean less cash to fund social programs. It is teh demographic that is low on the socio-economic scale that feel the pinch first and hardest.

I dunno, what's the point of engineering a collapse if there is no target group? The middle class is the economy and the source of the tax revenues aren't they? I'm just thinking first the demoralized beaten middle class can't and won't support the present level of social services. If we kick the legs out from under the middle class the poor fall as well. I still think it's best to destroy the middle class first just protecting essential elements of that middle class that serve the elite. Collapse like this one isn't a product of catastrophic surprises even if the intention is to take advantage of catastrophic climatic change. Yeah I think that's sound, to get the lower class lower still you got to dry up their supporting class. I guess maybe perhaps.

 

[Avro]

http://www.snopes.com/business/taxes/howtaxes.asp

Avro,
are you really confident about your statement? It's not the amount of taxation in those countries but rather the economies which define them. Norway will always do fine; regardless of the individual taxation, because of the oil. Sweden; much like Canada minus the oil, could just start chopping trees and mine more ore if the economy began to slow down.

About as confindent that the varibles involved in the beer analogy is lacking to say the least.

You left out the others I mentioned and those were the ones I found in a few minutes...plenty more were that came from.

How about Turkey....lower tax.

Or bankrupt Iceland....lower taxes.

Portugal.....been there....crap hole.

Poland....nuff said.

I wonder if that beer joke was even written by an economist?

It sure wasn't written by David R Kamerschen