Do countries with high social cohesion have high or low taxes? Instead of diving into the literature, I collected some very limited but unbiased data myself (by asking GPT-4, but social cohesion and taxes were done in two separate sessions). Haven't looked at results yet, but I'm doing now. Low cohesion countries are Zimbabwe, USA, Brazil, and Venezuela; high cohesion are Denmark, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and The Netherlands.
And GPT-4 did medium-high and medium-low, so we'll do six catories (none = 0, low = 1, medium-low = 2, medium = 3, medium-high = 4, high = 5). Then we'll take the mean even though it's not an interval scale because I'm GANGSTA. Low cohesion countries first.
Income: 4, 4, 3, 3 ((vs)) 5, 4, 2, 5, 2, 5. Means are 3.5 vs 3.8
VAT: 3, 0, 5, 5 VS 5, 3, 1, 5, 1, 5. Means are 3.25 vs 3.3
very tentative conclusion: Social cohesion is not about taxes