Mexico is a piss poor example of a low tax country. It's a great example of a failed state, however.
...but nice try.
Great, another Texas poster.
Liberal: educating our children is a good idea.
a777pilot: we need to cut spending, and that's spending! Education is bad for kids!
Liberal: Take a look at Mississippi that follows your thinking - ignorant people.
a777pilot: States that actually do what I suggest and are filled with ignorant people are piss poor examples of states who don't educate their children.
They're great examples of failed states, though. Just look at all the ignorant people - it's not fair to use them to judge the effects of not educating children!
We should use the states with GREAT economies who don't educate their children. There aren't any, but we'll get some when we cut education in more states!
Next up: a777pilot proves cutting health spending improves healthcare, if you don't include the biased selection of states who spend little and have bad care.
Mexico: clearly, its problems have NOTHING to do with low tax rates, since it's terrible, and our ideology says, cut taxes and you get utopia!
Texas logic.
A clue: a reason Mexico's tax rates are low, I suspect, is the massive poverty because they have such a huge concentration of wealth (richest man in the *world* in Mexico) - which is the Republican dream for the US to become more like that concentration of wealth. Undertaxing the rich greatly helps create that concentration.
Oh, hell, the Texan probably isn't even reading this. How do I put it in Texas terms?
Imagine a few big ranchers pay for the elections and own the government, which then puts in policies good for them so that all the other ranchers can't afford to stay in business - and become employees of those few big ranchers. From Ranch owner to ranch hand - and there are a lot more cowboys than are needed, so they fight for the scraps of a few cowboy positions for very little pay, and the rest try to grow a little to eat - and maybe rustle cattle for which they're hung on the spot.
But hey, all those starving cowboys pay low taxes. So it's a great situation, right?
'Low taxes' is the battle cry for saying 'low taxes for the RICH after they have shifted most income into their pockets, to get out of the rest of the equation to pay taxes.'
All the economic growth after inflation the last 30 years has gone to the top 80%, mostly to the top of the top 20%. So, don't tax them!
Why the hell can't any right wingers discuss taxes on billionares as something different from the taxes THEY pay? They see 'tax a billionare' and say don't tax me!
Even Obama, who is way too far to the right who has reportedly had the 'biggest tax cut in US history', is attacked as 'high tax'. These people are ignorant and irresponsible.