Taxes are really pretty simple, you dont want to levy so much they make life difficult for businesses and people to get on at the same time you have to offer a decent modern infrastructure that is just as important for economic growth, there are plenty of countries that have no taxes, Somalia, the Sudan, oddly they arent a hotbed of economic growth
Finding the balance is always the hard part, on the left we tend to discount the effect of taxes and just assume the economy will continue on no matter how much money is taxed and spent, conversely on the right they constantly downplay the importance of a well run infrastructure and also massively over state the benefits of low taxes
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