Submitted by Christophe (not verified) on 18 August, 2007 - 23:16.
So Sweden, a country with a population density of ... 20 people per square kilometer ... is happier than UK with population density of 240 people per square kilometer.
Oh ... let me show you why. 133.000 euros buys this in Sweden :
Everybody knows what appartment size you can get in England for 100.000 euros. Homes for 100.000 euros ? You're not going to find them (except complete dumps perhaps).
You need to match EVERY parameter as close as possible except the one you try to draw conclusions from. Either that, or you need a lot of data entries to compare. It doesn't work with just 2 examples.
Clearly economic freedom, which means lower taxes, leads to more successfull countries. Anyone actually disputes that ? Also, increased welfare collapses.
And about the lives of the poor improving : just about every town in Africa has electricity today. Now isn't that a huge improvement ? And yes, it doesn't bring Africa to the level of the world's richest people.
Two things, however, are abundantly clear :
1) africa will soon catch up
2) because of hard work of africans, and NOT because of foreign aid (and most defineately not because of increasing taxes in the UK)
© Tom Chance 2001-2007. 
So Sweden, a country with a population density of ... 20 people per square kilometer ... is happier than UK with population density of 240 people per square kilometer.
Oh ... let me show you why. 133.000 euros buys this in Sweden :
http://www.homesonsale.co.uk/mansion_in_sweden-o50211-en.html
Everybody knows what appartment size you can get in England for 100.000 euros. Homes for 100.000 euros ? You're not going to find them (except complete dumps perhaps).
You need to match EVERY parameter as close as possible except the one you try to draw conclusions from. Either that, or you need a lot of data entries to compare. It doesn't work with just 2 examples.
Clearly economic freedom, which means lower taxes, leads to more successfull countries. Anyone actually disputes that ? Also, increased welfare collapses.
And about the lives of the poor improving : just about every town in Africa has electricity today. Now isn't that a huge improvement ? And yes, it doesn't bring Africa to the level of the world's richest people.
Two things, however, are abundantly clear :
1) africa will soon catch up
2) because of hard work of africans, and NOT because of foreign aid (and most defineately not because of increasing taxes in the UK)