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Re:States with the highest taxes also rank as the unhappiest? by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @06:27PM (#1023481)
Could be the reverse is true: instead of taxes leading happiness, happiness might lead taxation.

Or put another way: happy Europeans are probably much easier to tax than happy Americans. :)

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Re:States with the highest taxes also rank as the unhappiest? by mixmax on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @06:40PM (#1023505)
Could be. Or it could be that a large public sector leads to both high taxation and happiness. My point was just that there doesn't seem to be enough data in the article to assert the conclusions that it does.
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