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Originally Posted by Probono
Waiting for someone to explain how US taxes are really lower? We have been lied to and mislead on many things in the Us because until the Internet person to person communication across international borders was rare.
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Doubt you'll get an answer.....
Face value taxes are, give or take a few percent either way, much the same in most industrialized countries. Most will get creative and invent as many reasons to tax as possible - Europe has refined "creativity" in dreaming up reasons to tax, but overall, can't see any difference between the US and elsewhere on this.
Probably the biggest difference is in what levels of funding are actually given back to taxpayers (after the govts have siphoned off/squandered a cut) and where a spectrum of services are provided - ie various levels of education, healthcare etc
The US is not particularly noted for giving back "services" to taxpayers and this shows in basic services like both education and healthcare where the taxpayer is left to deal with these - at added, and often absurd cost.
Probably overall the US taxpayer is paying a high price - whether in direct taxes or extra costs related to healthcare, education etc where, in comparison, most goverments usually pay for this from the proceeds of existing taxation.