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I agree, taxes are low in this country, even lower for the really wealthy. So it is mind boggling when people try to whine that taxes are too high and need to be lowered in this country.
Because I have to pay Social Security, medicare, Federal, State, Property (home and for each motor vehicle I own), and then I get taxed again when I purchase something. I have to pay taxes on & the person who purchases what I'm selling has to pay taxes on items that I already paid taxes on when I originally purchased the item. Now I may have to pay another tax for Obamacare. Then if I die and want to leave my money to my loved ones, it'll get taxed again...
So basically, using your logic, if:
Top Murder rate per 100,000 inhabitants:
USA: 150
Australia:165
UK: 163
Germany: 165
Belgium: 170
Italy: 160
We as Americans shouldn't think 450,000 deaths per year is too much just because some countries have a higher rate? Taking almost half my pay in taxes, taxing my money multiple times, and taxing my purchases annually that were already taxed when I originally brought it is ridiculous and obsessive.
Why do uneducated people continue to compare the U.S., a capitalist country that relies heavily on consumerism, to other countries? Taxes often go up faster than inflation, particularly property taxes.
Yes, one reason the rest of us have to pay so much in taxes is because of the "luckie-duckies" who are getting off scot-free, yet many of them are the biggest beneficiaries of this costly government. Of course they see no problem with all kinds of expensive government programs because they don't have to pay for it all. An across the board tax would make everyone have a stake in the national debt.
I guess high or low is relative according to your perspective. If they are 40% with minimal gov waste, minimal debt and systems are not being abused then I would say taxes are fair.
If the Fed is spending money like a drunken sailor, burying the nation in debt then no matter what the taxes are they are too high.
If taxes are raised for the purpose of wealth redistribution they are always wrong.
I won't speak for the countries mentioned in the OP other than to say each and every one of them have lived under the umbrella of US generosity.
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