Personally, I just want to know the facts about subjective well-being, but I must admit that I’m concerned that you have an ‘ideological axe to grind.’ Most of us (besides Scrooge McDuck) agree that money is extrinsically valuable. If money is ‘hugely’ important to well-being it is because of what it does. Having it, I imagine, has some sort of negligible effect on well-being, but what we want to know is how we (and perhaps the government) should use it. For some strange reason, I believe that you believe that it is wrong for the government (or any other organization) to decide how people spend money, a priori, regardless of what the data shows. I might be wrong. So tell me, what data would convinve you that taxes are good for us. that taxes (well-spent)actually do (or can), as a matter of empirical fact, enhance our subjective well-being?

Excelsior!
C.L.Sosis.

Personally, I just want to know the facts about subjective well-being, but I must admit that I’m concerned that you have an ‘ideological axe to grind.’ Most of us (besides Scrooge McDuck) agree that money is extrinsically valuable. If money is ‘hugely’ important to well-being it is because of what it does. Having it, I imagine, has some sort of negligible effect on well-being, but what we want to know is how we (and perhaps the government) should use it. For some strange reason, I believe that you believe that it is wrong for the government (or any other organization) to decide how people spend money, a priori, regardless of what the data shows. I might be wrong. So tell me, what data would convinve you that taxes are good for us. that taxes (well-spent)actually do (or can), as a matter of empirical fact, enhance our subjective well-being?

Excelsior!
C.L.Sosis.

Personally, I just want to know the facts about subjective well-being, but I must admit that I’m concerned that you have an ‘ideological axe to grind.’ Most of us (besides Scrooge McDuck) agree that money is extrinsically valuable. If money is ‘hugely’ important to well-being it is because of what it does. Having it, I imagine, has some sort of negligible effect on well-being, but what we want to know is how we (and perhaps the government) should use it. For some strange reason, I believe that you believe that it is wrong for the government (or any other organization) to decide how people spend money, a priori, regardless of what the data shows. I might be wrong. So tell me, what data would convinve you that taxes are good for us. that taxes (well-spent)actually do (or can), as a matter of empirical fact, enhance our subjective well-being?

Excelsior!
C.L.Sosis.

Well, not much.

Want to feel happy? Pay your taxes – and you may lose weight too
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news/want_to_feel_happy_pay_your_taxes