Justin,
Performance tires tend to wear faster (regardless of profile/aspect ratio) but that is due (in addition to the reasons Luke mentioned) to the tire using stickier but quicker wearing compounds than touring/all-season tires. Though I've seen many cases where a touring (usually longer lasting) tire wore out more quickly than a more aggressive tire because it was "overwhelmed" on a car that was either hard on tires (W124 V8's for instance) or driven in a more aggressive fashion.

Hope this helps...Lee