My point was that comparing the overall tax rate is worthless.
I gave a counter-example to show why.
I did not say nor mean to imply that it was a universal counter-example, although it seems you took it that way.
Your argument now is that "low taxes and affordable access to good services is better than high taxes and haphazard access to good services."
This is a different argument, and in fact is the same argument that I'm making, which is that you have to look at all of the costs and benefits, and not just simple income tax rates.
I was only arguing about a specific point in your post, not all of it. I read the rest of your post as "some people pay/paid high taxes, and are/were doing just fine". That implies (or at least that's how I read it) that higher taxes don't have a downside, which is what I was arguing against.
I gave a counter-example to show why.
I did not say nor mean to imply that it was a universal counter-example, although it seems you took it that way.
Your argument now is that "low taxes and affordable access to good services is better than high taxes and haphazard access to good services."
This is a different argument, and in fact is the same argument that I'm making, which is that you have to look at all of the costs and benefits, and not just simple income tax rates.