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Taking home 66% after taxes / healthcare is considered normal in large parts of the world, so why are Americans so much more likely to make a fuss about it? [Edit: jswinghammer enlightened me below: "Our taxes go to fund bankers and wars." That indeed may make a big difference. Over here in Europe I feel most of my taxes do good, not evil. So I'm kinda ok with them.]

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That's exactly right. We don't get even a tiny fraction of what you get for your ~50%+, or would get for ~35%.

Really? Which country are you from? Because if you are in the EU we gave loads to Greece. We gave much more to banks some 500 billion on EU level, then there is the national level.

And Nato is in Afghanistan so I think loads of EU nations are fighting wars. Many Eu nations joined the Iraq war too, so I do not think any American is taking a moral stance over high taxes which a European needs not because their moral conscience is clean.

The guy, as said in many other comments has an agenda. SO it is hardly "Americans" but republicans, or conservatives, or democrats as they may be called in some countries.

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