[extropy-chat] statistics, damned statistics, and taxation

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 10 18:25:35 UTC 2004


--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> At 07:39 AM 11/10/2004 -0800, MLwrote:
> >
> > > This is entertaining:
> >
> > > 27. <http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T//country/us/Economy>
> 
> > >United States  $6702.42 per person
> > >
> > > 42.
> > > <http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T//country/as/Economy>
> 
> > > Australia  $4398.94 per person
> >
> >Facts taken in isolation are meaningless, Damien, you should be
> >intelligent enough to realize this. What are the relative incomes vs
> >tax burden?
> 
> 
> Just teasing, Mike. But let's see, using the same database:
> 
> 
> North America:
> <http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us//country/us>United 
> States: Economy
> National Income: $9780 billion (2001) 
 (per capita): $33684.34 per person 
> av. tax = 19.9%
> 
> 
> Oceania: Australia:
> Economy
> 
> National Income: $386 billion (2001) 
> capita): $19562.14 per person 
> av. tax = 22.49%
> 
> Of course included in that extra 2.5 percent tax paid by Australians
> is medical coverage for all and some other goodies. Then again, we
> don't have to pay for nuclear weapons.

or space shuttles or Hubble Telescopes, or Galileo, Cassini, or other
probes, or other countries defense needs/internation policing. (You are
welcome, btw)

Or the R&D on those custom Australian F-111's 

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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