1: Suddenly there are confounding factors? Why didn't that stop you from claiming the correlation in the first place? 2: This isn't how taxes work. High-tax co

1: Suddenly there are confounding factors? Why didn't that stop you from claiming the correlation in the first place? 2: This isn't how taxes work. High-tax countries essentially do collective purchases with that money, which usually means lower cost per individual for services like education, healthcare, pensions and so on.